Artificial intelligence (AI) is gradually changing our private and working lives. Generative AI has been on everyone's lips since ChatGPT at the latest and many people are reporting on their experiences with human-machine interaction. But what does this mean for companies in concrete terms? You can find an introduction to the topic of AI policy and how you can use it as a shaping tool for a digitally successful future here.
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Industrialisation of the law with an accompanying at least partial standardisation in the handling of legal cases? For many lawyers, this seems an unnatural approach to our work. Isn't every legal mandate outside of mass proceedings an individual case? A comparison with treatment guidelines in medicine.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) and property rights to it are becoming increasingly important in business terms. Their importance is equal to that of traditional software, and the legal treatment of software can also be linked to this. Starting points include software protection under copyright law and software patents, but in view of their costs and difficulties, trade secret protection is the obvious choice. Read here how you can best protect yourself legally.
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The Legal Tech Laboratory is a format in which young lawyers experiment with modern working methods and approach technological change “under laboratory conditions”. At the same time, they can help shape the future of legal education by making suggestions for concrete training formats and then testing them prototypically.
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Innovative companies in particular benefit more from their intellectual achievements than from the simple sale of directly tangible products. Trade secrets are often a sensible way of protecting developments in this way. Its requirements are set out in the German Trade Secrets Protection Act (GeschGehG), which belatedly implements a European directive. We shed light on the requirements and the resulting need for action.
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Security in the IoT sector needs new solutions, both commercially and technically. There are some exciting initial approaches that also make longer-term solutions commercially viable. On the legal side, on the other hand, the requirements are more the usual ones: both general and industry-specific needs and solutions must be taken into account.
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The Legal Design Summit in Helsinki is the world's biggest event at the intersection of law and design. Methodologies established in design and other disciplines can provide a valuable lever for lawyers to create or improve existing human- and customer-centered solutions and delivery formats.
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Legal design is interdisciplinary. The term encompasses a whole range of methodologies. As the name suggests, they are based on findings from the design sciences; they place people at the centre and design solutions on this basis, but also regularly question what has been found.
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