Anna Sallstrom Comments on Business Using Trade Secrets to Protect AI Technology in Law360

Litigation partner Anna Sallstrom spoke with Law360 to comment on how businesses can use trade secrets to protect their AI technologies in “Trade Secrets Emerge As Path For Cos. To Protect AI Works.”

“As companies incorporate AI into more aspects of their business and more and more innovations either incorporate AI or are assisted by AI, I expect trade secret protection to continue to be an increasingly important part of companies’ intellectual property portfolios,” said Sallstrom.

Trade secrets offer a path to safeguarding the components that make up AI technology because if software or machine learning methods are found to be abstract, they may be ineligible for a patent under the U.S. Supreme Court’s Alice precedent.

“AI innovations tend to be black boxes in an area of rapid technological change,” Sallstrom said. “That can make trade secret protection, rather than patent protection, a particularly natural fit for protecting AI-related technology.”

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