Luiza Jarovsky, PhD

Gavriel Cohen announced a deal with Docker, Inc to integrate Docker Sandboxes into NanoClaw. Cohen created NanoClaw as a secure alternative to OpenClaw, which gained significant attention after being shared on Hacker News and praised by AI researcher Andrej Karpathy. Cohen closed his AI marketing startup to focus on NanoClaw, which has amassed a large community and significant GitHub activity. Cohen and his brother Lazer Cohen, now leading NanoCo (creators of NanoClaw), are exploring commercial opportunities while maintaining NanoClaw as a free and open-source project. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gWTrJqMK 📰 Subscribe to the Daily AI Brief: https://lnkd.in/epHYTU3i #ai #artificialintelligence #ainews #aistartup

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Israel’s DABUS decision: Also in Israel AI can’t be an “inventor”. Interesting unique legal arguments made by court. On 31 December 2025, the Tel Aviv District Court affirmed the Israeli Registrar’s refusal to proceed with patent applications that named an AI system (“DABUS”) as the inventor and sought to link ownership of the invention to ownership of the machine. Although “inventor” is not defined in Israel’s Patents Law, the court read the term in its ordinary meaning and statutory context as referring to a human being. The law’s internal references to an inventor’s heirs, the inventor’s ability to demand attribution, and waiver all point to a rights-bearing legal subject—something a machine is not. Because a non-inventor applicant must explain how it became the “owner of the invention” (by law, assignment, or agreement), the filings ran into a structural barrier: a machine has no legal personality and cannot transfer rights by assignment or contract, and purposive interpretation did not justify stretching the framework to treat AI as an inventor. The court also emphasized that whether and how to protect fully autonomous AI-generated inventions is a policy question with broader implications (incentives, disclosure vs. trade secrets, and international harmonization). In the court’s view, that is a legislative choice, not something to be achieved through interpretation of existing patent terms. Comparatively, the outcome aligns Israel with the dominant approach in major jurisdictions such as the UK, US, and the EPO: AI may assist the inventive process, but inventorship remains tied to a natural person. For innovators and counsel, the practical lesson is clear: when AI plays a role, the focus should be on identifying and documenting the human contribution that meets inventorship standards, and framing prosecution strategies accordingly. #Patents #IntellectualProperty #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #PatentLaw #Innovation #IPStrategy #TechLaw #IsraelLaw #DABUS

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A New (and Possibly Last) Voluntary Disclosure Procedure Has Been Published Wait, what is a voluntary disclosure procedure anyway? This is a procedure by the Israeli Tax Authority (ITA) that allows those who have committed tax violations (income tax, VAT, real estate taxation, etc.) to correct their reports or report for the first time without facing criminal proceedings, subject to certain conditions. What's the urgency? Applications for voluntary disclosure under this procedure can be submitted until August 31, 2026, and it was previously announced that this may be the last such procedure. How does the procedure work? The procedure consists of two tracks: (1) "Regular" track – where you must reach an assessment agreement with the ITA within generally one year from the approval date of the application; and (2) "Green" track – a shortened track where you must submit corrected or first-time report. How can you enter the "Green" track? If you haven't reported: (1) income from digital assets (regulated for the first time in this procedure); (2) income from financial assets held in a financial institution (e.g., bank) outside Israel; and (3) income from rental property for residence in Israel and/or abroad – provided you meet the amount thresholds set in the procedure for all or part of these sources, your application may be eligible for this track. My money is abroad, how do I pay the tax? There are solutions whether the Israeli banking system agrees to receive the funds to transfer them to the ITA for tax payment or not. you are welcome to contact us for professional consultation and guidance through the process. #taxation#voluntary disclosureprocess#israelitaxation

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Last week I spoke about #LegalAI in two different settings. First, at the Law and Technology Workshop at the Faculty of Law | Bar-Ilan University, taught by Dr. Ayelet Sela, and later at the Israel Bar Association conference, as part of a panel discussing the challenges of #AIAdoption in law firms. What stayed with me afterwards was how differently AI looks depending on where you sit along the legal career path. With the students, the conversation was mostly about opportunity. I do think this is a particularly good time to be starting a legal career. Students today still receive the traditional foundations of legal training, but they are also best positioned to grow alongside the technology rather than adapt to it later. We spoke about how AI is already part of daily legal work in Meitar | Law Offices, embedded in workflows and systems, and treated as part of the ordinary course of work rather than as an experiment. That experience also framed our discussion around responsibility and ethics, and the need to adopt tools deliberately rather than opportunistically. I was glad to share the discussion with Amit Weiss from Darrow AI, who added an important legal-tech perspective, particularly around new legal and adjacent roles that are only now starting to emerge and may also find a place inside law firms. A recurring question was how lawyers learn in a world where generative AI compresses much of the work through which experience was traditionally gained. That raises real questions about how legal judgment, experience, and professional mindset are developed going forward. Law schools understandably hesitate to become professional training programs, but some adaptation feels unavoidable. At the Bar Association conference, the focus shifted from promise to execution. The challenges discussed were largely organizational rather than technical: preparation, leadership, use-case selection, and managing confidentiality and privilege risks. In my experience, when AI is treated as infrastructure and approached deliberately, many of these challenges can be mitigated. Across both conversations, one theme connected everything. As legal work changes, the way we educate, qualify, and train lawyers will need to evolve as well. That responsibility sits with law schools, the Israeli Bar Association, and practitioners in law firms and legal departments alike. AI will not replace lawyers. But it does require more intention in how we create experience, develop judgment, and prepare for what legal practice is becoming. What I’m still thinking about is how we deliberately create the kind of experience that used to emerge naturally. #LegalInnovation #LawAndTechnology #LegalProfession

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New on ILN IP Insider: Greece’s new Law No. 5271/2026 introduces a specialized legal framework to combat art forgery and strengthen protection for works of art and collectibles. In this week’s article, Stavros Varveris of A. & K. Metaxopoulos and Partners Law Firm explains how Law No. 5271/2026: ✔ Establishes autonomous criminal offences for art forgery ✔ Removes the need to prove completed financial fraud ✔ Strengthens protection for artworks in museums and public spaces ✔ Introduces certified authentication mechanisms The legislation reflects a broader modern approach to safeguarding cultural heritage — particularly important in an era of rapid technological development. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/e5UsFFgt #IntellectualProperty #ArtLaw #LegalUpdate #IPLaw

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