IP Guides & News

A joint federal study just confirmed what we've been telling clients for two years: owning an NFT does not mean owning the intellectual property behind it. For brands moving into Web3, that distinction is not academic. It's the difference between a licensing structure that holds up and one that creates liability the moment a dispute arises. What the study actually addressed The USPTO and the US Copyright Office conducted a joint study examining NFTs and intellectual property

The regulatory landscape for digital assets in the United States is approaching a turning point — and most of the public conversation is missing the IP dimension entirely. Where the legislation stands The House Financial Services Committee held a dedicated hearing in March 2026 titled "Tokenization and the Future of Securities: Modernizing Our Capital Markets" — described by industry press as the most significant congressional examination of tokenization to date. The session

Your AI tool just generated a logo. It looks original. You used it commercially. Six months later — you receive an infringement notice. Who is responsible? This is no longer a hypothetical question. Courts are actively deciding it. An AI platform may accidentally generate content that is coincidentally confusingly similar to a pre-existing third-party trademark. Or the AI platform may be intentionally referencing a third-party trademark already within its knowledge base — wit

We reviewed IP structures of 20+ AI startups this year. The same three gaps appear every time. Not because founders are careless. Because AI products have IP that doesn’t fit into traditional legal frameworks — and most standard incorporation packages don’t address it. Gap #1: Training data ownership is undocumented. Who sourced the data your model was trained on? Was it licensed, scraped, or purchased? Is there a paper trail? In 2025, a US court ruled that legally sourced ma