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How AI Provisions in Client Service Agreements Can Protect Providers from IP Headaches
Consider this scenario: Your technology company is set to launch a new, customizable code generator for your business clients that uses generative AI to complete and suggest code. The tool detects errors across a range of programming languages and helps developers...
How AI Provisions in Client Service Agreements Can Protect Providers from IP Headaches
In today’s rapidly evolving AI-driven world, relying on outdated client agreements can lead to unexpected challenges. No matter what industry you are in, intellectual property issues, in particular, raise an array of unique questions in an AI-related client service agreement.
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