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Traditional Knowledge on the agenda for 2024

The IPKat

A key aspect of the Basic Proposal is an international disclosure requirement for patent applications (Article 3): For inventions based on genetic resources, applicants would be required to disclose the country of origin, or if that is unknown, the source of the genetic resources. Image from Pixabay.

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Artificial intelligence and intellectual property rights: the USPTO DABUS decision

Barry Sookman

”‘ The petitioner also advanced policy considerations to support the position that a patent application can name a machine as an inventor. 2004), a U.S. Law Society of Upper Canada , 2004 SCC 13. In the U.S., “a 3d 418 (9th.Cir.2018) 2018) because Naruto was not a human being. In Southco, Inc. Cambridge Corp.,