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Federal Circuit asked to Decide whether US Patent Law Excludes Non-Human Inventors

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Thaler filed for patent protection, but refused to name himself as the inventor — although he created DABUS, these particular inventions did not originate in his mind. The USPTO rejected the applications — explaining US patents must name a human inventor. Now the case is pending before the Federal Circuit.

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

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Applicants, for their part, are not required to disclose prior art that is not material to patentability or that is cumulative of other prior art they’ve already provided. It may surprise you, then, to learn that the genre of science fiction is deeply indebted to patent law and patent theory. See [link].

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He, She, or They in US Patent Law

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The following year, Congress passed the first patent act that was then signed-into law by President George Washington. The new law eliminated the female pronoun “she.” That said, patenting by women was at an extremely low level. patent system. Burk, Do Patents Have Gender?, 881 (2011).

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Inventorship Correction Affirmed for Patent on Intermodal Container for Transporting Gaseous Fluids

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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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A PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST AS A YOUNG…CODE(R)?: Why Understanding Artificial Intelligence & Real Creativity Shouldn’t Make The Artist A Dunsel

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1976), or that the process of production he designed and initiated “required great skill” even if “no changes were required.” For any given AI system, a human designed and wrote the program that constitutes the machine learning algorithm. Batlin & Son, Inc. Snyder , 536 F. 2d 486, 493 (2d Cir. ” Id.

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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. This has been a historically tumultuous area of patent law.

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