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Alleged Co-Inventor Not Bringing Home the Bacon This Time

The IP Law Blog

Well, it turns out that not all contributions count when it comes to being an inventor of a patent for a better method of precooking bacon. Unitherm”), argued that it had rights to the patent because its president was an inventor and should be added to the patent. Also, Howard was not named as an inventor. The court in Pannu v.

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Celebrating (?) the America Invents Act: Ten Years On, Many IP Stakeholders Say it’s Time for a Second Look

IP Watchdog

I began writing for Managing IP magazine in 2007 and remember well the lead-up to the law. The discussion centered mostly on the change from a first-inventor-to-invent to a first-inventor-to-file system, which was seen as a way to harmonize the United States with the rest of the world, but which many feared would be detrimental to U.S.

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Alleged Co-Inventor Not Bringing Home the Bacon This Time

LexBlog IP

Well, it turns out that not all contributions count when it comes to being an inventor of a patent for a better method of precooking bacon. HIP, formerly Unitherm Food Systems, Inc. (“Unitherm”), argued that it had rights to the patent because its president was an inventor and should be added to the patent. Iolab Corp.

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2021 IP Year in Review

IPilogue

Pina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode, the IP Intensive Program, and the IP Innovation Clinic, the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the IPilogue, the Deputy Editor of the Intellectual Property Journal, and an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. Continued Debates over AI as an Inventor.

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How and When can Software be Patented? How IP law principles interact with emerging tech

IPilogue

The IP principle that abstract ideas cannot be patented has often been misapplied to the development of software, often boiling down to concluding software to be unpatentable. Interestingly, a large tech company in 2011 almost failed to adequately define its software patent application.

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How the New USPTO Pre-Application Assessment Program Only Reinforces the Need for Integrated & Intelligent Patent Evaluation Software

IP.com

With a steady increase in patent submission rate and added strain on the patent review and approval system, the USPTO has announced plans to launch a new pre-application review program called the “Pre-Prosecution Pilot” as part of its continuing commitment to expand access to the innovation ecosystem and support under resourced inventors.

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USPTO Delivers Inventorship Guidance on AI-Assisted Inventions

IP Intelligence

2] Section II of the Guidance confirms the USPTO’s position, and that of the Federal Circuit, regarding who can be named an inventor on patents or applications. Vidal , the Federal Circuit held an inventor or joint inventor must be a natural person. [3] In Thaler v. 4] Based on U.S. 5] Stated otherwise, a natural person (e.g.,