M40 - AI and the Intersection of Intellectual Property and Data Privacy
Recorded On: 10/20/2025
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Artificial Intelligence is reshaping industries, but its development and deployment often sit at the nexus of intellectual property and data privacy laws. This panel will explore how regulations like GDPR and CCPA influence the creation, protection, and commercialization of AI-driven IP, including discussions on how these frameworks impact trade secrets, data-driven innovations, and compliance strategies in cross-border matters. Attendees will gain insights into balancing IP protections with privacy obligations, practical strategies for navigating compliance, and the implications of overlapping legal regimes for businesses leveraging AI technologies.
Presented in cooperation with Brooks Kushman P.C.
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LockedJeffrey Huang
Sr. Assistant General Counsel
Textron Specialized Vehicles Inc.
| Jeffrey Huang is currently the Sr. Assistant General Counsel at Textron Specialized Vehicles and lead legal counsel for the Pace Technology product.Previous to Textron, Jeffrey spent 13 years practicing patent litigation representing both plaintiffs and defendants. Before law school, Jeffrey spent 5 years as a software engineer.Jeffrey has been a panelist at Foley & Lardner's 20th Annual IP Conference in 2024, and the ABA's Business Law Spring Meeting in 2025.Jeffrey graduated from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) for both his J.D. and B.S. degrees. |
Paul Liu
General Counsel
PacketFabric
Paul is an award-winning builder of legal teams and functions with over 15 years of experience in managing legal functions, including commercial contracts, litigation, employment law, compliance, and intellectual property.
He has been described by his colleagues as “‘an excellent thinker, and most importantly, he gets things done.’” (Modern Counsel). He has been recognized in leading industry publications such Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) as one of “The World’s Leading IP Strategists.”
Paul is General Counsel at PacketFabric, a global telecommunications software company. At PacketFabric, he leads a team of five professionals and oversee the company’s legal department, including commercial contracts, litigation, employment law, legal compliance, and intellectual property.
Paul was previously Deputy General Counsel and Global Head of Intellectual Property at TuSimple. At TuSimple, he built teams in the US and abroad and harmonized the company’s processes and strategies with global best practices. This has resulted in, among other accomplishments, more than doubling the average patent strength/quality (measured by LexisNexis’s Competitive Impact metric), resulting in over 70% of the US-originated patent assets to be rated within the Global Top 10% of patent families according to LexisNexis while growing the patent portfolio size by over 400% to achieve the largest and most impactful home-grown patent portfolio held by any trucking-focused autonomous vehicle company.
He also built various compliance programs, policies, and training in areas such as export control and open source, abating risks such as fines and negative treatment from external parties and regulators. Additionally, he oversees company agreements throughout the contract life cycle, such as by implementing software, playbooks, and processes that preserve millions of dollars of enterprise value.
The functions that he has built created value to better leveraged the company to achieve positive outcomes in strategic alliances, investor presentations, and earnings calls.
Jessica Nguyen
Deputy General Counsel, AI Innovation & Trust
Docusign, Inc.
| Jessica Nguyen is the Chief Legal Officer at Lexion, the legal tailored intake + contract lifecycle management system powered by award-winning AI. During her 17+ year career, she has worked at startups (early and late stage) and VC/PE backed and publicly-traded companies. Jessica was the first in-house attorney at 3 different companies and has evolved into a public facing (14k+ LinkedIn followers and drives thousands to register for her hosted webinars) and growth and data centric General Counsel and operations leader. Prior to joining Lexion, Jessica was the General Counsel at Payscale, and in-house counsel at Microsoft, Hibu, and Avalara.Jessica is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Law, and has been recognized as the 2020 “Startup GC of the Year” by Corporate Counsel magazine, a 2019 Top 100 Legal Influencers by The Business Journals, Best Under 40 by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, and a 2018 Puget Sound Business Journal 40 Under 40. |
John Rondini
Co-Chair Litigation
Brooks Kushman P.C.
| John Rondini is a registered patent attorney with over 15 years of experience in all aspects of Intellectual Property law. John has represented client’s IP litigation matters from pre-litigation through managing all aspects of trial and settlement negotiations. John has counseled clients with regards to their patent prosecution docket and provided due diligence and clearance investigations. John co-founded and has worked to build Brooks' cyber-security and data privacy practice, and more recently has provided counseling on the more recently enacted legislation surrounding artificial intelligence.Prior to law school, John worked for both technology start-ups and Fortune 500 technology companies as an hardware and software design engineer. John specialized in Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) design and software coding. John's technology background has allowed him the ability to fully grasp the technology developed by his clients.John has engaged in many speaking events both locally and nationwide. John has provided talks on data privacy and patent law for both the local American Corporate Council (ACC) chapter and Michigan Inn of Courts. John has also provided numerous online webinars for the national ACC organization relating to IP litigation and licensing. Lastly, John has provided talks to numerous organizations, like the Michigan Business Development Group on cybersecurity and data privacy. John was also a featured guest on a local AM radio talk show discussing patent law.John received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Detroit-Mercy. |
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