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Michael Teich

Principal

Harness IP

Michael Teich is a Principal with Harness IP. He advises clients and business leaders who are engaged in developing strategic patent portfolios and navigating around their competitors. He prepares and prosecutes domestic, international, and PCT patent applications in the electrical and mechanical arts, with extensive experience in industries such as consumer electronics, computer and internet science, medical devices, telecommunications, image sensing, battery management, and AgriFood tech, among others. Michael has a penchant for assisting our Asian clients including those in China, Japan, and Korea protect their IP in the US.

Recent Articles by Michael Teich

AI Voice Cloning – and Its Misuse – Has Opened a Pandora’s Box of Legal Issues: Here’s What to Know

Voice cloning, a technology that enables the replication of human voices from large language models using artificial intelligence (AI), presents both exciting possibilities and legal challenges. Recent machine-learning advances have made it possible for people’s voices to be imitated with only a few short seconds of a voice sample as training data. It’s a development that brings exciting possibilities for personalized and immersive experiences, such as creating realistic voiceovers for content, lifelike personal assistants and even preserving the voices of loved ones for future generations. But it’s also ripe with potential for abuse, as it could easily be used to commit fraud, spread misinformation and generate fake audio evidence.