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Need to boost functionality allegedly taken to extreme by AI startup, US case shows

By Melissa Ritti ( February 17, 2026, 19:36 GMT | Comment) -- A sham corporation formed for the purported purpose of accessing a proprietary software program to improve the functionality of an artificial intelligence insurance tool was enjoined last week in the US. But an Illinois federal judge stopped short of blessing Applied Systems’ theory that the improvements, on their own, qualify as derivative works.In a case which could test more than the bounds of a single master agreement (MA), Applied Systems Inc. last week won a preliminary injunction against tech startup Ardent Labs, doing business as Comulate, whose artificial intelligence-powered platform automates insurance accounting processes....

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