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Intersection of Intellectual Property Law and Competition Law with respect to Cross Licensing Agreements

IIPRD

This has led to the introduction of intellectual property rights which are a set of exclusionary rights as it excludes the world from enjoying a set of rights arising out an invention or creation, except the inventor or creator. Cross-licensing agreements can both restrain and advance competition.

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AI-assisted inventions: USPTO’s most recent guidance for determining inventorship

JD Supra Law

AI technologies bring several new business opportunities, but they also bring a host of new legal questions, including in intellectual property law. By: Smart & Biggar

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A Creeper: Absorbing Generative AI into the Inventive Process

IP Watchdog

Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) recent Request for Comments (RFC) on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) highlights a critical juncture in intellectual property law—evaluating the impact of generative AI (GenAI) on the non-obviousness standard.

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Patent Protection on AI Inventions

Intellectual Property Law Blog

AI technology is complex and includes different parts across different fields. Inventors and patent attorneys often face the challenge of effectively protecting new AI technology development. The rule of thumb is to focus the patent protection on what the inventors improve over the conventional technology. 1) Training phase.

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The USPTO and USCO Delivered a Report to Congress on IP Issues with NFTs – Maintains Existing IP Regime

Intellectual Property Law Blog

The Report looked at: i) current and future applications of non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”); ii) how intellectual property laws apply to NFTs and assets associated with NFTs; iii) intellectual property-related challenges arising from the use of NFTs; and iv) potential ways to use NFTs to secure and manage intellectual property rights.

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USPTO Releases Inventorship Guidance for AI-assisted Inventions

LexBlog IP

The USPTO released inventorship guidance on February 12, 2024, for inventions assisted by artificial intelligence (AI). 2022), and this release provides guidance regarding the open question of human inventorship for inventions developed by a person working with the assistance of an AI system. Vidal , 43 F.4th 4th 1207 (Fed.

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The Quest for a Meaningful Threshold of Invention: Atlantic Works v. Brady (1883)

Patently-O

The Supreme Court ultimately reversed the lower court’s decision upholding the patent and found instead that Brady’s claimed invention lacked novelty and did not constitute a patentable advance over the prior art. Such an indiscriminate creation of exclusive privileges tends rather to obstruct than to stimulate invention.