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Protecting Trademarks and Brands Against Sophisticated AI-Driven Scams and Schemes
Attorneys and companies alike are witnessing a paradigm shift occurring during the protection of intellectual property assets, encountering more sophisticated solicitations designed to appear as official correspondence from the USPTO, and outright scams utilizing information publicly available through the USPTO for pending trademark applications and existing registrations.
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ABA Issues New Ethics Opinion On Billing for AI-Supported Work
A new American Bar Association ethics opinion touches on what has been a risky business area for Big Law in the emergence of generative AI: billing and fees related to AI-supported legal work.
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LJN Quarterly Update: 2024 Q2
The LJN Quarterly Update highlights some of the articles from the nine LJN Newsletters titles over the quarter. Articles include in-depth analysis and insights from lawyers and other practice area experts.
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5 Ways AI Can Strengthen Revenue Generation and Client Relationships
Maintaining consistent communication with clients can be time-consuming for most law firm professionals. Balancing this task with other competing responsibilities becomes challenging when case management, administrative duties, and strategic planning also demand the lawyer's attention. The time has never been better for firms to start introducing technology, like AI, to improve their overall business.
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Six Reasons e-Discovery Benefits from AI
Recent media coverage makes it clear that the time for law firms to embrace the disruption of AI is now. If you wait, from the looks of it, you risk losing business, and perhaps credibility.
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Major Labels File Lawsuits Over AI Companies' Alleged Copying of 'World's Most Popular' Recordings
Major record labels including Capitol Records and Sony Music Entertainment sued two music-focused generative artificial intelligence companies, accusing them of "willful copyright infringement on an almost unimaginable scale."
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AI Can Facilitate Innovation, But It Can Also Become a Potent Patent Killer
When is an inventor not an inventor? It's when the inventor isn't human. So, if a non-human inventor can't, in the eyes of patent law, be an inventor, what role can the non-human inventor have in the patent system? The answer is straightforward. Even though it can't create, it can destroy.
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Hope for 'Spotify Model' for Licensing Content for AI
A "Spotify model" of licensing, regulation and royalties could be the answer to the recent slew of lawsuits and future litigation relating to generative artificial intelligence defined by rampant misappropriation of name, image and likeness of individuals, including high-profile celebrities.
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5 Ways AI Strengthens Client Relationships and Revenue Generation
Maintaining consistent communication with clients can be time-consuming for most law firm professionals. Because balancing this task with other competing responsibilities becomes challenging, the time has never been better for firms to start introducing technology, like AI, to improve their overall business.
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Key Takeaways from the Latest USPTO Guidance on AI
The April Guidance, which supplements prior guidance issued in February, seeks to remind practitioners of existing rules and to educate them on potential risks associated with artificial intelligence tool use, allowing practitioners to mitigate these risks.
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