Gene Quinn

Many Worlds 2T Innovations LLC has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against OpenAI OpCo, LLC, alleging that OpenAI’s artificial intelligence products and services infringe five AI patents covering personalized search, vector-based retrieval, recommendation systems and probabilistically controlled content generation. The complaint, filed August 31, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, seeks a jury trial, monetary damages in the form of past and continuing royalties, enhanced damages for alleged willful infringement, and an injunction prohibiting continued infringement.

This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, I spoke with Bijou Mgbojikwe, who serves as Senior Policy Counsel for the Entertainment Software Association. Our conversation examined the rapidly expanding intersection of artificial intelligence, intellectual property, and video game policy. The central challenge is that legislation often treats very different technologies and use cases as though they present the same risks. Mgbojikwe discussed the distinction between harmful deepfakes and digital replicas used in legitimate creative works, including films and video games. Those concepts can implicate different legal frameworks, including right-of-publicity laws, copyright, consumer-protection statutes, and the First Amendment. When lawmakers combine them through broad definitions that are intended to prevent fraud, for example, legislation aimed at deception or abuse can inadvertently reach fictional characters, realistic game environments, and other expressive content.

This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, I spoke with Robert Plotkin, a patent attorney, computer scientist, and longtime software and AI practitioner. In what turned into a wide ranging conversation about artificial intelligence, Plotkin, who is the author of The Genie in the Machine and AI Armor: Securing the Future of Your AI Company with Strategic Intellectual Property, discusses the legal and strategic challenges confronting AI innovation. We discuss why companies should be cautious about treating AI patent counts as evidence of innovation leadership and why the most valuable AI patent portfolios are built around technology that matters to the business for a specific, articulable reason.

This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, I explain why I believe artificial intelligence is unlikely to eliminate experienced patent lawyers. That being said, AI is already transforming prior-art searching, claim comparison, application drafting, office-action responses, and portfolio analysis. But the strategic opportunity for competently using AI is not simply to produce more patents faster, but to reach a substantially better work product within the time and budget previously required to reach an acceptable but incomplete result. With that in mind I predict that AI will expose practitioners whose work consists primarily of commodity production.

In the latest episode of IPWatchdog Unleashed, I speak with Joel Meyer, an IP attorney and innovation strategist with more than 30 years of experience building and monetizing technology portfolios. Our conversation is about moving from patent count to patent value—and using IP strategy to preserve business optionality. That leads to a broader discussion about the role of IP counsel. A young company may not yet know whether its future lies primarily in products, services, licensing, acquisition or some combination of those paths. We discuss why the strongest IP strategies anticipate that uncertainty rather than prematurely narrowing the company’s options, and how AI can give sophisticated IP professionals better information and tools to help innovators build protection around what actually creates competitive value.