Intellectual Property Law
New Matter VOLUME 49, EDITION 4, FALL 2024
Content
- 2025 New Matter Author Submission Guidelines
- Contents
- Copyright Roundup
- Editorial Board
- Federal Circuit Report
- Inside This Issue
- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECTION Interest Group Representatives 2025-2026
- Letter from the Chair
- Letter from the Editor-in-Chief
- MCLE Self-Study Article
- Online Cle For Participatory Credit
- Prosecution Laches: Sonos, Inc. v. Google LLC; Netlist, Inc. V. Micron Tech., Inc.; and Wirtgen Am., Inc. v. Caterpillar, Inc.
- Quarterly International IP Law Update
- The California Lawyers Association Intellectual Property Alumni
- The Licensing Corner
- The Patent Eligibility Eras Tour: AI's Version
- TTAB Decisions and Developments
- Ninth Circuit Report
Ninth Circuit Report
ANNE-MARIE DAO
Troutman Sanders LLP
HAPPY WINTER, NINTH CIRCUIT READERS! This Ninth Circuit Report provides an update on Artificial Intelligence and its use in the legal realm.
AI IN THE LEGAL INDUSTRY
As an update to a previous Ninth Circuit Report, AI gained notoriety with lay people during the pandemic—in 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT. Two years later, law firms are using Artificial Intelligence ("AI"). While some firms are banning use of AI, others are embracing it, employing companies that offer legal focused AI solutions, or developing AI for use on case matters themselves. Law.com reports that 41 Am Law 100 firms are using generative artificial intelligence.1 AI can be used for drafting marketing materials and attorney biographies, summarizing documents or generating transcripts, drafting legal material, legal research, and e-discovery.2