Category: Featured
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Invited to World Economic Forum (WEF) 2026
I am honored to have been invited to the World Economic Forum, which will be held from January 19 to 23, 2026, in Davos. I will take part in a roundtable discussion organized by Robert Mahari, director of the CodeX Center at Stanford, under the auspices of Leading Beyond Boundaries 2026, a forum that describes
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Commercial contracts publication
After many long months of waiting, I am delighted to see the second edition of the Recueil de contrats commerciaux (Collection of Commercial Contracts) published by Helbing finally released. I contributed to this publication by drafting a service level agreement, more commonly referred to by the acronym SLA, a key operational document for ensuring business
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AI Governance in the banking sector
I am very pleased to have been invited by Academy&Finance to share my expertise during a half-day event dedicated to the challenges posed by AI governance in the banking sector. I will discuss a number of practical approaches to implementing European regulations on AI, particularly through the requirements set out in the ISO 42001 standard.
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Inventor and AI: interview by Legalcommunity.ch
Many thanks to Legalcommunity.ch for interviewing me (p. 31) about the ruling handed down on June 26, 2025 by the Federal Administrative Court in the DABUS case, in which the Federal Administrative Court ruled that an AI system could not be designated as an inventor, and on which I have already had the opportunity to
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Artificial Intelligence Governance Practitioner (AIGP) Certification
I am very pleased to have recently obtained my AIGP certification from the IAPP. This certification is based on a solid program offering a comprehensive overview of the challenges involved in implementing an AI systems management program: governance in general (setting up a team, choosing a structure, criteria to consider), design and development (including training
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IP requirements and scope of protection: speaker at INGRES Zurich IP Retreat
I am very pleased to have been invited this year by my colleagues Michael Ritscher and Christoph Gasser to attend the conference organized by INGRES known as the “Zurich IP Retreat,” which is held every two years and brings together a number of international practitioners and academics in the field of intellectual property. This year,
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AI and copyrights: Anthropic historic settlement
On September 5, 2025, Anthropic requested U.S. District Judge William Alsup to approve a USD 1.5 billion settlement entered into with the plaintiffs to put an end to the class-action lawsuit from a group of authors who accused the artificial intelligence company of using their books to train its AI chatbot Claude without permission. Background
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LLM Training and copyrights: the Anthropic case – interview on FORUM Broadcasting
We had the opportunity to express our views on the decision handed down on June 23, 2025, by the US District Court for the Northern District of California in the Anthropic case, in which the federal judge ruled that the reproduction of legitimately acquired works for the purpose of training the Claude model constituted a
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Training an LLM as fair use: the Anthropic case
On 23 June 2025 the US District Court for the Northen District of California ruled in the Anthropic case that training an LLM amounted to fair use. We had already reported on Thomson Reuters, where the District Court of the State of Delaware had ruled that the reproduction of copyrighted materials to train an AI
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The EU General Court rules on the concept of “advertising services” in the Airbnb case (T-1032/23)
On May 21, 2025, the EU General Court handed down an interesting ruling on the notion of “advertising services” as a basis for validating the use of a trademark in class 35. I. Facts II. Decision The EU General Court dismissed Airbnb’s appeal on the basis of the following considerations: III. Comments This ruling is