Synopsis
Against the context of Industrial Revolution 4.0, the legal industry is being disrupted by data analytics and artificial intelligence (“AI”). Legal analytics and AI-driven applications in the law is transforming the nature of legal service delivery across the US, Europe, Australia and now in Singapore. New forms of analytics-driven legal services have emerged in emerging areas such as judicial analytics, compliance and enforcement analytics. Just as IBM’s Watson has disrupted the banking and healthcare industries, Ross the so-called “AI lawyer” has emerged. How will the field of intellectual asset management (“IAM”) be impacted by the rise of legal analytics and AI? In this lecture, the speaker will survey recent developments in the legal technology landscape and analyse the impact of data analytics and AI in the practice of IAM. Data mining in the field of patent searches is not new. The deployment of litigation analytics and judicial analytics in IP litigation is a fairly recent development. The use of data analytics to generate new insights into how judges think or to weigh the odds of success in contentious IP litigation will increasingly become mainstream. Compliance and enforcement analytics, in turn, can be used by policy makers and regulators to enhance the enforcement ecosystem in relation to IP related laws and regulations. How will these recent developments impact the strategy and practice of IAM as we know it today? In this lecture, the speaker will peek into the future where AI-driven chatbots enabled by advanced data analytics can render IP and IAM-related advisory services including risk evaluation and calculating economic loss for IP infringement. When more complex data collection is made easier and data crunching can be done faster and at much lower cost, will the standard of care expected of IAM practitioners be higher while the cost of service expected to be lower? Will the deployment of advanced analytics and artificial intelligence enable higher value creation in the IAM universe? How do we prepare IAM practitioners for this new world?
Speaker
Zaid HAMZAH is CEO of the Asia Law Exchange, a managed legal service technology provider. He is a technology lawyer specializing in cybersecurity and technology law, intellectual property and legal data analytics. With over 30 years of professional experience in the legal, technology and government sectors, Zaid has served as Director for Intellectual Property at Microsoft; Chief Legal Officer at Telekom Malaysia and Senior Legal Advisor at Singtel’s JV with Warner Bros and Sony Pictures. In his legal technology and intellectual property practice, Zaid has advised the Malaysian Government on its intellectual property policy and conducted programs on Strategic IP Management for WIPO for participants from China, Philippines, Central Asian Republics and Singapore. He has consulted for the Japanese Government in the area of R&D commercialization in Malaysia. Author of 9 books including “Intellectual Property Law and Strategy”, Zaid is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University. Admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor, Singapore and Solicitor, England & Wales, Mr Zaid graduated with a Bachelor of Law from the National University of Singapore and was awarded the Fulbright scholarship for his Master in International Relation at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA. His research areas of interest are in the fields of legal data analytics especially in the context of cybersecurity risks and strategic legal and regulatory risk management.
Commentator
Warren CHIK holds LLMs degrees from Tulane University School of Law in the U.S. and University College London in the U.K. and is an alumni from NUS School of Law. He is an Advocate and Solicitor in Singapore and is also qualified to practice in England & Wales and the State of New York. Warren was also a Legal Counsel with the Attorney-General's Office for many years as an advisor on International Law matters and had also served as a Deputy Public Prosecutor in his early years of service. Warren has been with SMU School of Law since its inception and served as an Associate Dean from 2013-2017. His areas of research and writing are in Infocomm Technology law, Data Protection and Privacy law, Copyright and IT related legal issues as well as on the law relating to Internet Intermediaries and Disruptive Innovation.
Chair
Kung-Chung LIU holds LL.B. and LL.M. from National Taiwan University and a Doctorate from the Ludwig Maximilian Universitaet (University of Munich). He was a Research Fellow at Academia Sinica, Taiwan until 2017. In 2003, he was a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore and Visiting Senior Research Fellow for the IP Academy of Singapore. Professor Liu has served as one of the founding Commissioners of the National Communications Commission in Taiwan between 2006 and 2007. In 2014-15, he was a Visiting Professor at the School of Law, Singapore Management University, and the Founding Director of the Applied Research Centre for Intellectual Assets and the Law in Asia (ARCIALA). In addition, he has been co-appointed Professor at the Renmin University, China (2017), and the Graduate Institute of Technology, Innovation & Intellectual Property Management, National Chengchi University, Taiwan (since 2010).
Programme
2.30pm - Registration
3.00pm – Lecture by Mr. Zaid
4.30pm – Comments by Professor Warren Chik
4.45pm - Q & A
5.00pm - End of Event
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Last updated on 16 May 2018 .
