Editor's note: David Soofian is an associate at Kaye Scholer LLP, where he regularly defends technology companies against allegations of patent infringement by competitors and trolls.
Stefani E. Shanberg is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she specializes in defending technology companies against patent claims from competitors and non-practicing entities. .
But the company is also looking to defend its technology against a growing number of low-cost Chinese rivals, analysts said.
Speaking to The Independent Renew CEO Kaveh Memari was keen to defend the technology: "The gist of it is that we are collecting anonymised, aggregated MAC details.
Normally, companies vigorously defend such technology.
Yet even in the face of controversy, police departments continue to use and defend these technologies when questioned by the public, the media and politicians.
Andrew M. Baum, president of SemBioSys Genetics in Calgary, Alberta, said the big companies had been in the "reactive mode" and had not been aggressive enough in defending the technology.
The corporation denied responsibility and defended its technology even though the car's system failed to detect a truck in front of it.
Michael Tetuan, a spokesman for G.E.'s water and power division, staunchly defended the technology this week, calling it "the industry's workhorse with a proven track record of safety and reliability for more than 40 years".
Dr. Wachsmuth, the agriculture official who defended the technology in 1998, said in an interview on Saturday that the absence of the disease had been an important factor in that defense.
While defending election technology against cyberattacks is critical, it is even more important to be able to detect such attacks, mitigate them and attempt to identify the attackers.
