With the rapid uptake of unmanned aircraft systems, both the drone industry and property owners — among others — want certainty on the legality of nascent “anti-drone” technology, but the state of related law is murky at best and is likely to remain so for at least the near future.
“This is one of those areas — and this is coming from a guy who’s been doing cyber for five years — that is really complex and super challenging on the regulatory side,” McCarter & English LLP partner Alex Major said. “I’ve talked to at least three different clients with technology they need to get off the ground because they want to sell it to prisons, or stadium authorities, or even the federal government, and they can’t seem to get any traction because of the laws of the United States.”