ANSI Legal Issues Forum to Examine How AI Is Reshaping Standards Licensing and IP Protection
ANSI Legal Issues Forum to Examine How AI Is Reshaping Standards Licensing and IP Protection
Publish Date: 2026-06-29 12:47:00
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July 30 program convenes SDO chief executives and senior industry, legal, and policy leaders to address the new commercial realities AI is creating for standards developers
NEW YORK, June 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) will convene legal, technical, and commercial experts at the 2026 ANSI Innovation Summit on Thursday, July 30, for the ANSI Legal Issues Forum: Standards at a Crossroads—AI Policy, Practice, and Protection. The half-day program at the Grand Hyatt Denver will explore how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming standards licensing and the challenges that standards developing organizations (SDOs) face in protecting their intellectual property while adapting to new commercial realities.
“AI is rapidly changing the commercial realities of standards,” said Laurie E. Locascio, Ph.D., NAE, president and CEO of ANSI. “Standards developers are making consequential decisions about how to digitize their content, how to engage with AI platforms and enterprise users, and how to protect their intellectual property in a new kind of licensing landscape. This forum brings the legal, technical, and commercial expertise together to help our community navigate that terrain.”
The forum opens with welcome remarks from Patricia A. Griffin, senior vice president and general counsel, ANSI, followed by a keynote address from Elham Tabassi, director of the Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Initiative and senior fellow for Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution. A three-part discussion follows.
Panel 1: What SDOs Are Doing examines the range of approaches SDOs are taking to digitizing their standards and enabling—or restricting—AI use. With some organizations prohibiting AI-enabled uses altogether and others actively negotiating AI-related rights and permissions, the conversation will surface the policy frameworks and…
