Artificial Intelligence Practice

Congress Launches House AI Task Force in Latest Bipartisan Step to Address Technology

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As companies develop, acquire and invest in AI technologies, they face unexplored business issues and legal questions. Seasoned in advising leading-edge technology companies, Pillsbury’s AI team helps startups, global corporations and government agencies navigate the regulatory and legal landscape being disrupted by (and forming in response to) generative AI, large language models (LLMs) and other developments in artificial intelligence.

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Navigating AI Procurement with Precision

Crafting AI Solutions That Resonate

Selling Your AI Innovation

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Technology Transactions

Navigating AI Procurement with Precision

Embarking on the AI journey begins with selecting the right tools. At Pillsbury, we leverage our market knowledge to guide you through the procurement process, ensuring you choose the best AI technologies and services tailored to your needs. Our seasoned negotiators work diligently to secure favorable contracts, focusing on risk allocation, cost efficiency, and scalability, enabling you to invest with confidence.

Deploying AI for Transformational Growth

Implementing AI technology into your company’s operational environment is more than a technical upgrade; it’s a strategic evolution. Pillsbury is here to help your organization harness the power of AI effectively. From developing use policies that align with your corporate governance to navigating the intricacies of IP rights and mitigating liabilities, our team ensures your AI utilization is both impactful and compliant.

Concept to Launch: Crafting AI Solutions That Resonate

Your vision for AI-driven products and services deserves a foundation built on innovation and insight. Pillsbury aids in designing and constructing AI solutions that both captivate and comply. We assist in selecting the right creation tools, advising on go-to-market strategies, and ensuring your products meet regulatory standards while appealing to your target audience.

Strategy Meets Execution: Selling Your AI Innovation

Pillsbury’s strategic guidance helps position your AI offerings for success, ensuring they are compelling, compliant and competitive. From establishing effective market strategies to addressing IP protection and operational compliance, we stand by you, ensuring your product not only enters the market but also thrives.

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Tech Transactions

Tech transactions and sourcing considerations are essential to businesses offering and utilizing artificial intelligence. Contracts, licensing agreements and commercial partnerships must be carefully negotiated to protect IP, address data privacy concerns and mitigate potential liability exposure. Ensuring compliance with regulatory frameworks and establishing clear terms for the use, sharing and storage of data are crucial to enabling successful collaborations while adhering to legal and ethical standards.

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Artificial intelligence is powering transformative technologies, and companies around the world are seizing on AI as a fundamental game-changer for their business and industry.

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Artificial Intelligence technologies and the organizations behind them face a host of Intellectual Property issues, even as the landscape continues to transform. The laws governing IP ownership and protection are evolving quickly, with AI-generated works forcing a reassessment of traditional concepts of authorship. The complex nature of AI algorithms makes the need for trade secret protections—and the need for robust confidentiality measures to protect valuable AI-related know-how—more important than ever.

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Deploying AI for Transformational Growth

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Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP is an international law firm with a particular focus on the technology & life sciences, energy, financial, and real estate & construction sectors. Recognized as one of the most innovative law firms by Financial Times and one of the top firms for client service by BTI Consulting, Pillsbury and its lawyers are highly regarded for their forward-thinking approach, their enthusiasm for collaborating across disciplines and their authoritative commercial awareness.

This collective scientific and technical knowledge is critical to speaking the same language as the inventors, innovators, early adopters and investors we represent. Enhancing these strengths, Pillsbury deploys an AI-enabled analytics platform that provides flexible machine-learning capabilities and adaptive text-mining and visualization tools to streamline labor-intensive tasks.

We work across all industry verticals, from technology and media, biotech and health care, and financial services, to energy, real estate and construction, and transportation. Members on our team have advanced degrees in computer science and engineering and a deep understanding of the broader context of AI as well as more nuanced subsets of machine learning, deep learning, emotional intelligence systems, natural language processing and neural networks.

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Michael Horikawa Partner, Los Angeles T: +1.213.488.7121

EU Passes Comprehensive AI Law, Heralding a New Era of Regulation

With Federal Efforts Stalled, States Take Lead in Regulating AI in Political Ads