A Chat With Legalweek Speaker Ryan Phelan

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.

Legaltech News caught up with U.S. patent attorney Ryan Phelan, a partner at Marshall, Gerstein & Borun and founder and moderator of legal blog PatentNext, to discuss how courts and jurisdictions are handling novel technologies, the copyrightability of AI-assisted art, and more.