The AI Risk Gap: What Technology Contracts and Patent Practice Must Address Now

Christopher G. Simboli | Parsons Behle & Latimer

Chris Simboli is a shareholder at Parsons Behle & Latimer and chairperson of the firm’s Intellectual Property practice group. Chris has extensive experience and expertise in drafting, negotiating and advising on contracts, transactions and arrangements required by clients in a wide variety of sophisticated technology and market sectors. Having practiced law for more than 25 years, Chris has extensive experience working on intellectual property and technology transactions, including his time spent practicing in Silicon Valley. He helps his clients address the technology and licensing issues and their deals demand, ranging from the routine to the highly complex. Chris understands his clients’ needs and helps them develop sound legal solutions to their business requirements based on firsthand experience and success. He has represented and negotiated with some of the biggest and best-known technology companies in the world. Chris advises his clients on the protection, commercialization, licensing and transfer of intellectual property and technology. His practice includes the licensing and transfer of patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets as well as the licensing of software and other technologies, and the procurement and distribution of SaaS, IaaS, PaaS and other cloud-based services. His clients have spanned a gamut of industries, including telecommunications, semiconductor, internet, e-commerce, computer software and hardware, cloud computing, data storage and privacy, consulting and professional services, research & design, and healthcare IT, to name a few. Chris also advises his clients on selling and purchasing high technology computer hardware and equipment products and helps secure intellectual property rights protections in connection with research & design, joint development, consulting, professional services and other technological development initiatives.

Christopher Cuneo | Parsons Behle & Latimer

Chris Cuneo is a registered patent attorney practicing primarily in the areas of patent prosecution, licensing, intellectual property litigation, and complex business litigation. His expertise includes a wide variety of technologies such as flexible angular displacement sensors, touch screen devices, semiconductor devices, aircraft systems, routers and other networking hardware, software, network security, firearms and firearm accessories, environmental monitoring and cleanup, automotive systems, financial and banking systems, and medical devices. Chris frequently prepares opinions concerning patentability, non-infringement, invalidity, and freedom to operate, and has served as an expert witness in patent litigation. He has represented numerous clients in patent litigation matters in various U.S. District Courts, Appellate Courts, and before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, including agribusinesses, online retailers, a 5G wireless networking company, a railroad inspection company, luxury automobile companies, medical equipment companies, and several others. Chris has also worked as a patent examiner at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, examining patent applications relating to electric motors and electric power generation in green technologies such as wind, wave, and solar power generation, among others.

Session I – Artificial Intelligence (AI) Provisions in Technology Contracts | 1:00pm – 2:00pm

• AI and confidentiality
• AI in representations & warranties
• AI indemnification
• AI in limitations of liability

Break | 2:00pm – 2:10pm

Session II – Artificial Intelligence (AI) Issues in Patent Practice | 2:10pm – 3:10pm 

• AI inventorship and the requirement for human contributions
• AI issues with patent eligibility (i.e., 35 USC 101 issues)
• AI use creating disclosure problems for enablement
• Disclosure and ethical practice risks with AI tools