<h1>Engineering firm launches proprietary generative-AI framework - legal focus on IP ownership, contracts, data protection, liability allocation</h1> A listed engineering services firm announced a proprietary generative-AI framework to accelerate product development across lifecycle stages, claiming multiple deployed and in-design use cases and integration with organizational knowledge, digital twins and agentic workflows. Legal considerations include intellectual property ownership of the framework and outputs, contractual obligations and warranties to clients for performance and accuracy, data protection and model training data provenance, regulatory compliance for safety-critical applications, and allocation of liability for design defects or downstream failures. Commercial issues include licensing, confidentiality, export controls, and employee and subcontractor IP assignment.