… data privacy, cybersecurity, and employment.

Best practices for navigating IP issues has been a moving target for the past several decades, as our federal and state legislatures have reacted to these issues and IP has wound its way through the courts. AI will inevitably follow the same path, as the issues are overlapping and the stakes are even higher.

I will provide IP and AI audits for your business, assessing areas of potential improvement for your policies, procedures, and contracting on these issues. This includes counseling for compliance with the consistently inconsistent government regulations to come for AI.

…by any of your competitors.

If your company’s invention is in software/AI, in most cases you would be best served not applying for patent protection. Such inventions are presumptively not patentable under current law and filing patent applications is expensive (and enforcing them even more so).

And yet, if your invention proves to be patentable, then you would be a fool not to seek patent protection, which provide exclusive rights (whereas trade secret protections simply do not). But there are many traps for the unwary and the clock on them have already started ….

Let me help you determine early what your IP protection options are, so you can proceed strategically and effectively.

…secret misappropriation claims against former employees who have left to work for a competitor or to start their own competing businesses. In certain industries like information technology, these cases turn almost entirely on the application of IP law.

I am passionate about both IP rights and the right to job mobility. Let me help drive your dispute toward a principled middle ground preserving both.