Patently-O

AUGUST 5, 2022

Patent Law, because the U.S. Patent Act was amended in 2011 to expressly require that inventors be “individuals.” In its newest decision on the topic, the Federal Circuit declares instead, for the purposes of patent law, an inventor must be human. The word individual is important for U.S.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In my view, it is unquestionable that AI regularly contribute to inventive concepts so substantially as to be named joint-inventors alongside their human counterparts, if it were permitted. 100(f)/(g) (2011). Thaler has been attempting to seek patent protection for two inventions created by DABUS, his AI computer. 35 U.S.C. §

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Patently-O

MARCH 18, 2024

The patent at issue, originally naming a single inventor (Steve Campbell), claims a lightweight intermodal container system for transporting refrigerated gaseous fluids. 256 to correct inventorship on an issued patent. Campbell filed a provisional application in 2011 and a non-provisional in 2012 that eventually issued in 2016.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The EPO has launched a user consultation on grace periods for patents, the results of which will be published in early 2022 ( EPO press release ). The EPC as it currently stands does not permit a grace period in which inventors may disclose their invention without prejudicing a future patent filing. 102(b)(1)(A) ).

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 31, 2022

George Washington University Law School Professor Dmitry Karshtedt has passed. We often had different ways of thinking about patent law, and I always hoped that some day we might have time to write something together. He joined GW Law in 2015 after a fellowship at Stanford and received tenure in 2020.

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Patently-O

MARCH 7, 2024

Celanese began selling the product on the competitive market in 2011, and eventually decided to file for patent protection on its manufacturing process in 2015. 102, a patentee’s pre-filing sale of a product made by a secret process starts the one-year clock for patenting that process. In my prior post on Celanese v.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

patent laws enacted on September 11, 2011; one relating to the U.S. changing from first-to-invent to first-to-file, the other relating to the creation of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and three new procedural mechanisms to invalidate issued patents. There were two revolutionary amendments to U.S.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 10, 2022

Part 1: The Four Pillars of Patentability. Part 2: A Beginner’s Guide to Patenting Software and Artificial Intelligence. Patenting software, and inventions related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning, known as computer-implemented inventions (CII) in patent lingo, is a complicated and evolving area.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 23, 2022

Micro Entity Status: Qualifying to Reduce Patent Fees. Are you a small business or an individual inventor filing for a patent in the U.S.? If so, keep reading to learn about how you can reduce your patent fees through micro entity status. How to reduce your patent fees. Free patent consultations.

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TraskBritt Intellectual Property

MAY 27, 2021

The cost savings of filing a provisional patent application without consulting a professional are certainly tempting. However, such a strategy may ultimately cost more in the long run, including possibly costing valuable patent protection. What is a Provisional Patent Application? Keep Trade Secrets Secret.

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Patently-O

APRIL 8, 2024

By Dennis Crouch In 1931, the United States Supreme Court decided a landmark case on the patentability of inventions, De Forest Radio Co. The case involved a patent infringement suit over an improved vacuum tube used in radio communications. Background The patent at issue, U.S. 103 and patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. §

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

24, 2021), the Federal Circuit affirmed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s final decision canceling claims in Indivior’s patent claiming a polymer matrix-containing film. Here the prior art was none other than the Patent Office’s publication of one of the claimed priority applications. wt % to about 58.6

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 15, 2022

One need only look at a recent Australian case also involving Thaler , where he was trying to establish an AI program as an inventor entitled to recognition under the patent laws. However, the characterisation of a person as an inventor is a question of law. Vidal , Case No.

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