AI Cafe: IP Ownership and Diligence Readiness for Founders Building With AI

Founders are building with AI and running their businesses on it every day, usually without a clear picture of the legal exposure that comes with it. The choices you make about data, content and vendors carry real consequences, and they tend to surface at the worst possible moment: during a fundraise, a partnership negotiation, or an acquisition.

Nuzayra Haque-Shah is an intellectual property and business attorney who has spent twelve years advising founders, including unicorn founders through exits north of $1B. She walks through the AI law and compliance essentials for anyone developing AI products or using AI tools in daily work, and attendees leave with a practical checklist of what to put in place now.

What we'll cover

IP ownership: who owns content and inventions created with AI, and what is and isn't protectable.

Data, privacy and trade secrets: what data you can use to build or prompt AI, what privacy obligations apply to the information you collect and process, and how AI tools can put proprietary information at risk.

Contracts and vendor terms: what to look for in the terms of the AI tools your business depends on, and what belongs in your own customer agreements.

Diligence readiness: what investors and acquirers now ask about your AI, from training data rights and third-party or open-source models to internal AI use and IP assignment.

Agenda November 12th, 2026

8:45 - 9:30 am • Coffee and Socialize

9:30 - 10:30 am • Talk in the Clubhouse with Audience Q&A

11:00 am • Space closes to the public

11:15 am • AI Office Hours (members only)

About: Nuzayra Haque-Shah

Nuzayra Haque-Shah, Esq. is an intellectual property and business attorney and the founder of NH Legal PC. Over twelve years in IP she has advised unicorn founders who have exited north of $1B in valuation, alongside startups building across AI, health tech, beauty and wellness, fashion, influencer marketing and CPG. Her firm holds a 100% success record before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.

She was one of the first attorneys to win federal trademark protection in the cannabis industry, a new and legally uncertain space at the time, and was named to the Daily Journal's Top Women Attorneys in 2017. She has been a Super Lawyers Rising Star in Southern California for intellectual property since 2015, a distinction given to 2.5% of attorneys in the region, and she previously served on the Board of Directors of the South Asian Bar Association of Southern California. She is also the creator of Legally Savvy CEO, a platform that gives scaling founders a flat-fee annual retainer for legal services, built because billable hours kept too many founders from getting the protection they needed.

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