Technological change, sustainability priorities and the rapid
expansion of AI is reshaping the global economy and with it, the
intellectual property (IP) landscape. #
Our patent, trade mark and design attorneys have distilled their
thoughts on what IP professionals, business leaders and innovators
should prepare for in 2026.
2025 IP year-in-review: AI's ripples become waves #
AI reshapes creation and protection #
The proliferation of generative AI tools has changed the way people create and innovate.
Throughout the year, debates intensified over how we conceive of
ownership, how we protect AI-assisted creations and how AI models are trained on copyrighted
material.
Many governments also scrambled to introduce legal adjustments
to patent and copyright frameworks. The European Patent Office
(EPO) further refined the Guidelines for Examinations regarding AI
and ML-based inventions and in November, the USPTO issued revised guidance on inventorship for
AI-assisted
