Jennifer Maisel
Key details
- Job title: Member and Co-Chair of the AI Practice Group
- Firm: Rothwell Figg
- Jurisdiction: US
Jennifer Maisel is a member at Rothwell Figg in Washington, DC, where she co-chairs the firm’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Practice Group.
She focuses her practice on intellectual property litigation, including inter partes review (IPR), post-grant review (PGR), patent litigation, and patent prosecution. Maisel also advises clients on IP, data protection, and privacy issues in emerging technology sectors.
Maisel has hands-on experience developing language models for natural language processing applications. She has spent more than a decade advising clients across a broad range of technologies, including virtual reality, big data, the Internet of Things, cybersecurity, quantum technologies, blockchain, and privacy-driven systems.
Maisel is at the forefront of several major IP disputes involving AI. For example, she represents multiple news organisations, including The New York Times, in litigation against OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. She has also represented numerous clients in IP litigation before the US district courts nationwide, as well as before the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the US Supreme Court.
Her thought leadership includes contributions to legal and technical scholarship on AI and IP, such as AI in Augmented Reality and Entertainment in the American Bar Association (ABA) publication Law of Artificial Intelligence and Smart Machines (2019), and frequent speaking engagements for organisations including the ABA and the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA).
Maisel is active in several professional organisations, including the ABA, (where she serves as vice chair of the Emerging Technologies Committee), the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), and the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI).