Jon Stone Featured in BizTimes Milwaukee Article About Possible Impact of AI on Intellectual Property
Jon Stone, a Milwaukee-based partner and co-chair of the Quarles & Brady Artificial Intelligence team, was featured in a BizTimes Milwaukee article about intellectual property (IP) issues related to artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly becoming embedded in business operations. The article discussed AI issues related to copyrights and patents, and provided practical takeaways for business leaders.
In the article, Stone noted that the legal landscape is moving fast to adapt to the transformative nature of AI, similar to the early days of the internet. Stone also discussed the potential issues with AI and patents and the potential for competitors to use AI to work around other companies’ patents.
An excerpt:
“AI is a transformative technology, and the legal landscape is adapting to its usage,” said Jon Stone, partner at Quarles & Brady and co-chair of the Milwaukee-based firm’s Artificial Intelligence Group. “In many ways, I view this sort of similar to the heyday of the Internet.”
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One way AI could change the patent landscape is by accelerating design-around strategies, in which companies look for ways to innovate around existing patents, according to Stone.
“Say I’m a pharmaceutical company and I have a medication on the market that took me years and years to find the compound that’s going to target this in this particular physiological pathway,” Stone said. “Somebody could now use an AI model to just churn through the drug discovery process and find compounds that are similar and be able to work around the patents I might have on that.”
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“It’s an issue that we would have had to face regardless,” Stone said. “Competitors are always trying to work around other companies’ patents. It’s just that now AI might be a tool that can help them do that a little more efficiently.”