Houston Harbaugh Secures Federal Trademark Registration for “Defending the Algorithm®”
The Firm’s AI litigation and intellectual property publications, podcasts, and programs are now IP protected by a federally registered trademark, underscoring the growing authority of its Intellectual Property and Litigation practice in the artificial intelligence arena.
Houston Harbaugh, P.C. has received a federal trademark registration and certificate from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for Defending the Algorithm®, the firm’s branded and widely read publication and companion podcast and program series exploring artificial intelligence litigation and law and intellectual property protection, and prosecution.
Created by Houston Harbaugh’s Intellectual Property practice group and the firms AI Committee, Defending the Algorithm® markets itself as “a Lawyer’s Bayesian Analysis of AI Litigation and Law.” The publications and related programs track and interpret the fast-moving legal and ethical issues arising at the intersection of AI and the law, including trade secret misappropriation under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA), copyright disputes involving generative AI, trademark and patent prosecution strategy, and emerging questions of AI LLM platform liability. Each edition pairs practical guidance for businesses implementing AI tools with strategic insight for defending against AI- and IP-related claims and lawsuits. The firm publishes several newsletters under this brand on Employment Law and Litigation, Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith Litigation, and Corporate, M&A and Transactional Law.
“Securing this registration is more than a formality. It is a recognition of the branded AI law platform that our Intellectual Property team has built,” said Henry M. Sneath, chair of Houston Harbaugh’s Intellectual Property practice and initial creator of this series and brand. “Defending the Algorithm® has become a resource that clients, colleagues, and courts alike turn to for a clear read on where AI law is headed. Registering the mark protects that brand the same way we protect our clients’ brands every day.”
Houston Harbaugh has developed a strong, forward looking and AI-enhanced focus on legal issues that reflect the growing benefits and threats of a rapidly changing legal and business frontier due to high technology, artificial intelligence (AI), alternative energy and land use issues. We provide corporate counsel to clients and litigate for them in cutting edge areas related to data breach, cybersecurity, computer fraud and abuse act, trade secret theft, DTSALaw®, patent prosecution and infringement litigation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), renewable energy, land use, employment restrictive covenants, and health care technology. We have our own internal and secure, AI-enabled information management tech stack and other AI research and analysis tools. For Houston Harbaugh’s clients, the registration reinforces that in a moment when the legal treatment of artificial intelligence is being written case by case, clients benefit from working with a firm that treats its own intellectual property with the same discipline it brings to theirs.
