SAN FRANCISCO – Feb. 4, 2022– Ian Ballon, co-chair of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP’s global Intellectual Property (IP) & Technology Practice, will speak on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data portability, at the Practicing Law Institute (PLI)’s IP Issues in Business Transactions 2022 event in San Francisco.
In a session titled “Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information Rights as Assets in Business Transactions,” Ballon, a litigator with substantial experience in the area, will speak on AI/ML and data portability issues Feb. 4 at 9 a.m. PST. According to the PLI agenda, the session provides “guidance for companies embarking on the development of data acquisition, usage, building and training an AI system, monetization and protection programs.” Additionally, “value and risks of data in the digital economy, data ownership, key considerations for monetization programs, sample contract clauses around data, and privacy laws” will be discussed.
Ballon, an internet and IP litigation shareholder in Greenberg Traurig’s Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. offices, has been included in The Daily Journal’s annual list of Top IP Litigators in California every year that the list has been published, from 2009 to 2021, and was named the Lawyer of the Year for Information Technology Law in the 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016, and 2013 editions of Best Lawyers in America. In 2019, he was named one of the top 20 Cybersecurity lawyers in California and, in 2018, one of the Top Cybersecurity/Artificial Intelligence lawyers in California by the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal. Ballon received the 2017 “Trailblazer” Award, Intellectual Property from The National Law Journal and he has been recognized as a “Groundbreaker” in The Recorder’s 2017 Litigation Departments of the Year Awards. He was also the recipient of the California State Bar Intellectual Property Law section's Vanguard Award for significant contributions to the development of intellectual property law. Ballon is an elected member of the American Law Institute and served as an advisor to its international intellectual property jurisdiction project and a member of the consultative group for the American Law Institute’s Data Privacy Principles of Law project.
Ballon also is the author of West’s bestselling 5-volume legal treatise, E-Commerce and Internet Law 2d ed. (www.IanBallon.net).