In IP Watchdog, Justin Pierce shares his insights on emerging trends shaping intellectual property and artificial intelligence in 2026. The following is an excerpt:
Justin Pierce, Venable
“While there will be continuing focus on model training in several pending court actions, I predict that there will be a growing amount of focus on Agentic AI, and specifically on what agents do, for example, when they are coding, publishing, purchasing, negotiating and transacting on behalf of another entity or human. Agent outputs, tool use, and cross-agent workflows may drive new copyright, trade secret, data privacy, and unfair competition claims.”
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