Legal Outlook
Can you keep your AI a secret?
Nina Fitzgerald, IP and Media Partner at Ashurst, sits down with Julie Cheeseman, Counsel at Ashurst in the IP and Media team, to talk about protecting AI as a trade secret and some of the benefits and the challenges of this approach.
About this episode
In this episode, Nina Fitzgerald, IP and Media Partner at Ashurst, sits down with Julie Cheeseman, Counsel at Ashurst in the IP and Media team, to talk about protecting AI as a trade secret and some of the benefits and the challenges of this approach.
Julie and Nina discuss how trade secrets are protected under Australian law and how AI systems, such as Google’s algorithm, might be protected in this manner.
“Trade secret protection can last forever, provided that the secrecy is maintained, and the information is not publicly disclosed.” Julie Cheeseman, Counsel in the IP and Media team, Ashurst.
