Business, research and development, health care, customer service, marketing, and other activities, interactions, and endeavors are changing with the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), natural language processing (NLP) and robotics. These innovations are affecting speed, productivity, capacity, and privacy while creating new risks and opportunities.

Different industries and use cases incorporate AI, ML, NLP and robotics in a variety of ways, resulting in a wide range of potential benefits, risks, issues and impacts. As a team, we have extensive experience advising clients about AI, ML, NLP and robotics relevant to their industries and use case(s), including the following:

AI, ML, NLP and robotics are all technologies our team is familiar with. We understand how to effectively tailor, balance and leverage these technologies for our client’s benefit. These include but are not limited to companies in the emerging technology sector, health care systems, life science, medical device, consumer products, transportation, drones and defense.

In the existing and evolving areas of law involving AI, ML, NLP, and robotics, we can also efficiently allocate and/or mitigate risks and benefits for our clients.

  • Leading creators and developers of AI, ML, NLP and robotic technologies in raising funds, developing and protecting their intellectual property. This includes underlying models, algorithms and data sets, commercializing their technology with customers, and practically navigating regulatory and compliance environments. The respect pertains to but is not limited to privacy, regulatory approvals, product liability, safety, bias, discrimination, and otherwise monetizing and selling their AI, ML, NLP, and/or robotic business and assets.
  • Guiding buyers and users of small and large organizations of AI, ML, NLP and robotic technologies who want to pilot, test and eventually deploy and use these advancing technologies to transform their operations, reduce costs, improve quality, reduce errors and more.
  • Directing organizations that want to partner or collaborate on AI, ML, NLP or robotic projects by combining and/or learning from their respective data sets and other assets.
  • Advising users of AI and ML platforms regarding rights to work product produced, confidentiality, trade secrets, intellectual property creations, and derivative works including source code, artwork, ChatGPT and other content.
Publications
Disclosure to Generative-AI Tools Can Create Patent Prosecution Risk
Key Takeaways Using generative-AI tools for patent drafting creates more than efficiency gains. AI-assisted patent drafting can create patentability risks associated with novelty, inventorship, § 112, and later, enforceability. Public accessibility, not the use of AI itself, drives the statutory-bar analysis. Disclosing an invention to an AI system may qualify as a “printed publication” or as making it “otherwise available to the public” under 35 U.S.C. § 102(a)(1), thereby creating a statutory bar risk that could preclude patent protection. AI can assist inventors and patent counsel, but it cannot be the inventor. Inventorship still requires human conception. Companies using AI in invention disclosures or patent drafting should adopt guardrails. Use closed AI environments for all invention disclosure and patent drafting, avoid AI tools accessible
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Who Owns AI-Generated Content? Human Authorship Still Controls, and Documenting the Creation Process Is Critical
Key Takeaways Copyright law’s existing framework still governs AI-generated outputs: originality, human authorship and fixation remain the core principles. In 2025, the D.C. Circuit confirmed that the Copyright Act requires human authorship and does not permit copyright registration for works generated autonomously by AI. The Copyright Office has taken the same position: AI-assisted works may be protectable, but purely AI-generated material, or material reflecting insufficient human control over expressive elements, is not. For businesses, the practical question is not whether AI may be used to create content — it may. The question is whether the business can identify and document enough human-authored expression to support ownership, registration and enforcement. Businesses across industries now use generative AI to draft advertising and website text, create images and
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