IP Tech Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

The Guidance, for USPTO examiners and applicants, addresses inventorship and the use of AI, including generative AI, in the inventive process. The Guidance provides illustrative examples in which AI systems play different roles in the inventive process, to show how the USPTO will analyze inventorship issues.

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Patent and Trademark Office on Monday issued guidance on how it will determine whether inventions developed with the assistance of artificial intelligence can be patented, explaining that a human must have made a "significant contribution."

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

On 12 February 2024, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced with a press release the publication of its Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions (Guidance). The guidance embraces the use of AI in innovation and provides that AI-assisted inventions are not categorically unpatentable.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 15, 2024

significantly contributed to the invention of a road trailer for transporting liquefied natural gas, upholding a lower court's finding that they must be credited as co-inventors on the patent. The Federal Circuit ruled Friday that two executives of pipe company Tube-Mac Industries Inc.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 5, 2024

The Guidance, for USPTO examiners and applicants, addresses inventorship and the use of AI, including generative AI, in the inventive process. The Guidance provides illustrative examples in which AI systems play different roles in the inventive process, to show how the USPTO will analyze inventorship issues. an AI] prompt.

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Patently-O

APRIL 25, 2023

As artificial intelligence progresses at an unprecedented pace, numerous cases have emerged where generative AI has played a crucial role in conceiving an invention. This raises the question of whether it is appropriate to designate the human, who contributed to only a part of the invention and collaborated with the AI, as the sole inventor.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 22, 2023

[ On December 20, the UK Supreme Court affirmed its previous decision to deny registration to inventions by Dr. Stephen Thaler’s AI DABUS, holding that an AI software cannot be listed as an inventor. SpicyIP intern Vedika discusses this development. Vedika is a third-year B.A.LL.B. student at National Law University, Delhi.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

On February 12, 2024, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced guidance and a request for comments regarding evaluating inventorship for artificial intelligence (AI) assisted inventions (the “AI Guidance”).

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 7, 2024

Invention assignment provisions are fundamental in employment agreements. On one hand, they are the mechanism by which an employer takes ownership of important types of intellectual property employees create that relates to the job—potentially patentable inventions, which may be trade secrets unless patent protection is sought.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 11, 2024

This past Friday, a federal district court held that the mere fact of combining certain natural products – such as isolated, naturally occurring AAV sequences and a heterologous non-AAV sequence – and putting them into a cultured host cell, without some change, does not give rise to a patent eligible invention under 35 U.S.C. §

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The question of how inventions that were at least partially implemented using an AI system would be treated was left unanswered by these holdings. By: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

In the following sections, we will discuss an illustrative list of subject areas that may offer patentable AI inventions. (1) However, inventors often need to improve various aspects of an existing AI system to make it fit and work for their applications. 1) Training phase.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 15, 2024

Can AI inventions be patented? Scott Hervey and Eric Caligiuri explore recent USPTO guidance on patenting AI-assisted inventions in this installment of "The Briefing" by Weintraub Tobin. By: Weintraub Tobin

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 15, 2024

Can AI inventions be patented? Scott Hervey and Eric Caligiuri explore recent USPTO guidance on patenting AI-assisted inventions in this installment of "The Briefing" by Weintraub Tobin. By: Weintraub Tobin

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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. 103 as part of the Patent Act of 1952, it nonetheless applied a similar requirement for “invention.” 101, all under the general rubric of the “invention” requirement.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

Can AI inventions be patented? Scott Hervey and Eric Caligiuri explore recent USPTO guidance on patenting AI-assisted inventions in this episode of The Briefing. Watch this episode on the Weintraub YouTube channel or listen to this podcast episode here.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The minutes are brief but confirm the Board of Appeal's decision to acknowledge the inventive step of the claimed invention and to dismiss the appeal. The inventive step of the claimed invention was acknowledged based on the post-published data submitted by the Patentee. How many moths needed for an invention?

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Intepat

APRIL 2, 2022

A patent is a form of intellectual property right granted to an invention. It gives the inventor or patent owner exclusive rights and prevents others from manufacturing, selling, or marketing the invention. Patents are valuable assets that enable one to share their invention in public without any fear of being misused.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

What is invented through biotechnological processes must be protected through patent protection lest a third person misuses the same. This came after careful observation of rising international trends with respect to innovations and inventions concerning biotechnology.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 22, 2024

You have invented a process for manufacturing a high-potency artificial sweetener. You could keep your process a closely guarded secret—benefiting from trade secret protection potentially forever—at the constant risk that a competitor may legally reverse engineer or independently discover your invention. By: WilmerHale

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

AI-assisted inventions can be patented, provided there is a significant contribution by at least one natural person - The USPTO has now published guidance explaining how the determination of inventorship for AI-assisted inventions should be considered, including the below key takeaways. The USPTO is seeking public comment.

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IP.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Invention disclosure documents are the important first steps in the IP commercialization process. Not only does it represent the first recording of the invention, establishing the date and scope, but they have been used to defeat challenges to dates of invention, inventorship, invention scope, and prior art.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 14, 2023

Patentability of AI-assisted Inventions- DBL’s Managing Partner Tom Dunlap recently wrote an interesting article about the current state of artificial intelligence (AI) inventorship. Mr. Dunlap detailed the patenting efforts surrounding DABUS, an AI system developed by Dr. Stephen Thaler that autonomously created certain inventions.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) may change how we invent: many envision a collaborative approach between human inventors and AI systems that develop novel solutions to problems together. Such AI-assisted inventions present a new set of legal issues under patent law. By: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 4, 2024

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued guidance regarding patentability and inventorship for inventions made with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI), clarifying the Office’s position that such inventions are patent-eligible so long as at least one human inventor made a significant contribution to conception of the invention.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In the practice of patent examination in China, to determine whether an invention has prominent substantive features is to determine, to the person skilled in the art, whether the claimed invention is non-obvious as compared with the prior art. By: Linda Liu & Partners

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued its Inventorship Guidance for AI-assisted Inventions for determining inventorship where artificial intelligence (AI) is used during the invention process.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Innovators seeking patent protection for entertainment software inventions should be aware that all software inventions face patent-eligibility issues. Nevertheless, patent practitioners who are experienced in the art of software patent prosecution can help ensure that software inventions get maximum protection. By: Lewis Roca

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 12, 2024

Patent and Trademark Office issued inventorship guidance for inventions developed with assistance of AI in February. Pursuant to efforts by the federal government to develop artificial intelligence in a safe, secure and trustworthy manner, the U.S.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released its much anticipated Inventorship Guidance on AI-Assisted Inventions (“Guidance”). Further to President Biden’s 2023 executive order (EO) on the safe, secure and trustworthy development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) last year, the U.S. By: BakerHostetler

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 4, 2024

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued what it labeled as Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions [Docket No. Despite its name, the document provides little in the way of certainty that one could not garner from reviewing recent precedent addressing the issue of artificial intelligence (AI) inventions.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 4, 2023

The Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) decision in G 2/21 related to the evidence requirement for a purported technical effect relied on for inventive step. The Board of Appeal in T 2803/18 , in particular, highlights how G 2/21 may be relevant to inventions in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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IP.com

JULY 14, 2021

Willis Carrier invented the air conditioner in 1902 and was granted a patent for the invention in 1906. Carrier’s invention was the culmination of centuries of experimentation with air, water, The post How Popular Inventions Came to Life: Who Invented the Air Conditioner?

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

On February 13, 2024, the USPTO (PTO) published its guidance for inventions made with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI). The PTO published the guidance in response to the directive it received in the Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence issued October 20, 2023.

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Barry Sookman

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Recent decisions in both the patent and copyright fields have denied protection for otherwise patentable inventions and copyright works where the sole claimed inventor or author is identified as an artificial intelligence system. … The post Do generative AI inventions and works qualify for patents and copyrights?

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

As directed by President Biden’s Executive Order (EO) on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (the AI EO), the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released its Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions (Guidance) on February 12, 2024.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

An important question is what happens when AI is part of the inventive process. Just like your business, the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) also grapples with the boundaries of intellectual property (IP) protection and using AI. By: Woods Rogers Vandeventer Black

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