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Guest Post by Prof. Hrdy & Dan Brean: The Patent Law Origins of Science Fiction

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Are inventions described in works of science fiction patentable? In our new paper, The Patent Law Origins of Science Fiction , available at [link] , we show that science fiction as a literary form was originally premised on the idea that works of science fiction are like patents. University of Minnesota Press 2016).

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Blue Gentian’s Efforts to Maintain Sole Inventorship Were Hosed by the Federal Circuit

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Hormel Foods Corporation (22-1696) where the appellate panel found the purported inventor’s contribution to be “insignificant in quality. when] measured against dimension of the full invention,” the panel in Blue Gentian, LLC v. Patent Nos. The district court agreed that Ragner should be added as an inventor.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Patenting Software and AI

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Part 5: The IP Hidden Gems: Trade Secrets and Industrial Designs. 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. As a result, what remained was an abstract idea (i.e.

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