Sophisticated clients realize that one or more intangible property rights invariably underlie almost any tangible object. Our Technology and Intellectual Property attorneys have a wealth of experience in successfully helping clients to leverage their rights in such copyrights, patents, trade secrets, trade dress, trademarks and other intellectual property assets by means of a wide array of both traditional and innovative license, distribution and transfer models in a broad number of fields, including software, services, games and entertainment, telecommunications, life sciences and data imaging.
For example, our attorneys stand ready to provide practical and timely assistance in connection with structuring, drafting and negotiating:
Copyright, patent, trade secret, trade dress and trademark license and sale agreements
Conventional software license, distribution and sale agreements
Open Source license and distribution agreements
Software maintenance, support and service level agreements (SLAs)
Software as a Service (SaaS) and other cloud computing arrangements
In November 2025, a California jury awarded Masimo $634 million after finding that Apple Watch heart-rate notification features infringed claims of Masimo’s U.S. Patent No. 10,433,776. In July 2026, the district court entered final judgment preserving that award after denying Apple’s post-trial effort to obtain judgment as a matter of law or a new trial. The judgment remains subject to appellate review.
In November 2025, a California jury awarded Masimo $634 million after finding that Apple Watch heart-rate notification features infringed claims of Masimo’s U.S. Patent No. 10,433,776. In July 2026, the district court entered final judgment preserving that award after denying Apple’s post-trial effort to obtain judgment as a matter of law or a new trial. The judgment remains subject to appellate review.
A model that summarizes internal meetings may present familiar privacy, security and contract questions. Connect the same model to a hiring score, credit decision, insurance recommendation or patient interaction, and the analysis changes. Put it in a public chatbot used by minors, and a different set of concerns appears. Use it to generate images or audio, and disclosure and provenance rules may matter.
This is the most useful way to read the emerging state AI patchwork: the legal unit of analysis is not the model. It is the moment when the system interacts with a person, influences a decision or produces an output that the law treats differently.
A model that summarizes internal meetings may present familiar privacy, security and contract questions. Connect the same model to a hiring score, credit decision, insurance recommendation or patient interaction, and the analysis changes. Put it in a public chatbot used by minors, and a different set of concerns appears. Use it to generate images or audio, and disclosure and provenance rules may matter.
This is the most useful way to read the emerging state AI patchwork: the legal unit of analysis is not the model. It is the moment when the system interacts with a person, influences a decision or produces an output that the law treats differently.
Acquirers are increasingly looking at businesses whose products use AI, depend on AI, or sit close enough to AI that the buyer expects future value from data, automation, software or model-enabled workflows. The target may not be an “AI company” in the headline sense. It may be a medical-device company using machine-learning outputs in a diagnostic workflow, a software platform embedding generative AI in a user interface, a manufacturer using computer vision in quality control, a services business with proprietary datasets and automation, or a consumer brand relying on AI-created marketing assets.
Acquirers are increasingly looking at businesses whose products use AI, depend on AI, or sit close enough to AI that the buyer expects future value from data, automation, software or model-enabled workflows. The target may not be an “AI company” in the headline sense. It may be a medical-device company using machine-learning outputs in a diagnostic workflow, a software platform embedding generative AI in a user interface, a manufacturer using computer vision in quality control, a services business with proprietary datasets and automation, or a consumer brand relying on AI-created marketing assets.
This Workshop, sponsored by Colciencias, the Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio, and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), will feature three talks by Joseph Morales, a patent attorney at WTP.
This Workshop, sponsored by Colciencias, the Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio, and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), will feature three talks by Joseph Morales, a patent attorney at WTP.
