AI as an Innovation Engine: Creating, Capturing, and Protecting the Next Generation of Corporate IP

Most AI guidance for in-house counsel focuses on what can go wrong, but AI is also helping employees prototype faster, work across disciplines, and generate ideas well outside their usual expertise. That shift gives the legal department a new opportunity: helping the business use AI to create more valuable, more protectable IP while keeping human contribution at the core. Join us on Tuesday, December 1, 2026, at 12:00 p.m. ET / 9:00 a.m. PT as David Stevens, Intellectual Property Counsel and Business Advisor, IP Strategy Specialist at Stevens Law Group, walks through how legal can turn AI from a risk to manage into a source of new IP, using a practical INPUT → USE → OUTPUT → OWNERSHIP → PROTECTION framework. Attendees will learn how to: See AI as an accelerator, enabler, and generator: how employees are using AI to innovate outside their traditional expertise, prototype ideas, and bridge gaps between disciplines Find dormant IP already inside the organization: use AI to surface overlooked inventions, know-how, and assets worth protecting Map the spectrum of AI contribution: distinguish administrative assistance from AI that may help generate inventive concepts, and what that means for protection Preserve the “human IP core”: keep and document the human contribution that patent and copyright protection depend on Apply the INPUT → USE → OUTPUT → OWNERSHIP → PROTECTION framework: a step-by-step way to capture and protect what AI-assisted work produces Build governance that enables innovation: protect the company without unnecessarily restricting how employees use AI Who Should Attend: This program is designed for general counsel, in-house counsel, IP counsel, and legal operations professionals at companies that are investing in innovation and AI adoption. It will be especially useful for those advising R&D, engineering, and product teams, managing invention disclosure or IP portfolios, or building AI governance and use policies. There is NO COST to attend this program! This program is FREE, thanks to our gracious sponsor, Stevens Law Group! If you can’t make it to the live program, the recording will be available for viewing via our paid CLE library- In-House Connect On-Demand.