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Bonus Content: How Emerging Technologies Are Impacting IP: A Chat With Legalweek Speaker Ryan Phelan

By Benjamin Joyner
March 17, 2025

[Editor’s Note: With Legalweeek ‘25 coming the week of March 24, we thought it would be interesting to republish a Q&A from The IP Strategist’s ALM sibling, Legaltech News with Ryan Phelan, a partner at Marshall, Gerstein & Borun and founder and moderator of legal blog PatentNext, who will be speaking at a couple sessions during the conference.]

Advancing technologies like artificial intelligence are impacting nearly every aspect of the intellectual property landscape. Developers are filing patent applications for generative AI inventions, while courts are grappling with issues like the copyrightability of art created with the assistance of generative AI.

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