…by any of your competitors. And AI implicates a wide range of your legal issues including IP, data privacy, 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, the stakes are even higher, and the forthcoming government regulations will be far tighter.

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 government regulations to come for AI.

…include applying for and enforcing your patents. These risks are magnified for any AI or software patent, because of the general (and ill-defined) prohibitions against patenting mathematical formulas and abstract ideas and the multiple avenues a patent defendant has to invalidate your patent.

The best way to mitigate these risks is to clearly define the scope of your patent claims and how they solve existing problems in your original application. A high-quality patent also facilitates meaningful negotiations for any license or sale of your patents and for any M&A activity. This may sound like common sense but it is just not common.

…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 (IT), 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.