March 19, 2025 Webinar CLE: OSB Intellectual Property Section: All That AI Litigation Jazz

Topic: OSB Intellectual Property Section: All That AI Litigation Jazz

A presentation on the spate of litigation around Artificial Intelligence systems, particularly around copyrights. The presentation will primarily be focused on the claims that Artificial Intelligence systems like ChatGPT infringe the copyrights of the information used to train them, but will also discuss separate litigation (and other governmental actions) concerning whether copyright protection may be secured for the output of these systems. Although the technology of these systems are complex, the presentation will not delve into details of the technology, but will instead focus on the general principles of intellectual property law that may be implicated by these disputes.

Speaker: McCoy Smith

P. McCoy Smith is the Founding Attorney at Lex Pan Law LLC, a full-service technology and intellectual property law firm based in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A and Opsequio LLC, an open source compliance consultancy. Prior to his current position, he spent 20 years in the legal department of a Fortune 50 multinational technology company as a business unit intellectual property specialist; among his duties was setting up the free & open source legal function and policies for that company. He preceded his in-house experience with 8 years in private practice in a large New York City-based boutique intellectual property law firm, working simultaneously as a U.S. patent litigator and U.S. patent prosecutor. He was also a patent examiner at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office prior to attending law school. He is licensed to practice law in Oregon, California & New York and to prosecute patent applications in the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office; he is also a registered Trademark and Patent Agent with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office. He has degrees from Colorado State University (Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, with honors), Johns Hopkins University (Masters of Liberal Arts) and the University of Virginia (Juris Doctor). While in private practice, and continuing into his in-house career, he taught portions of the U.S. patent bar exam for a long-standing and well-known patent bar exam preparation course, and from 2014-2020 was on the editorial board of the Journal of Open Law, Technology & Society (JOLTS), and starting in 2023 will be on the editorial board of the American Intellectual Property Law Quarterly Journal (AIPLAQJ). He is the author or co-author of chapters on open source and copyright and patents in “Open Source Law, Policy & Practice” (2022, Oxford University Press). He lectures frequently around the world on free and open source issues as well as other intellectual property topics.

MCLE Credit: Applying for one (1) general credit from the Oregon State Bar

Date: March 19, 2025

Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

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All that AI Litigation Jazz – OSB IP Section

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