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Celebrating Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Inventors and Entrepreneurs

U.S. Department of Commerce

Celebrating Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Inventors and Entrepreneurs. In 2014, three undergraduate students at Columbia University co-founded Kinnos Inc. and the inventor of FreshPaper sheets?that May 24, 2022. KCPullen@doc.gov. Tue, 05/24/2022 - 10:53. Intellectual property. Minority business growth.

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Intellectual Property Rights in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Navigating Challenges and Seizing Opportunities

IIPRD

Analyzing the convergence of AI and IPR laws, it elucidates the challenges and ambiguities in recognizing AI as inventors or creators. When artificial technologies are utilized for creating innovations, such as employing evolutionary algorithms for antenna design or engaging IBM Watson to produce music, IPR laws become relevant.

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Capturing All the Dimensions: Intellectual Property Protection for 3-D Designs and 3-D Printing Methods

More Than Your Mark

At its core, 3-D printing uses computer code in a computer-aided design (CAD) file to instruct specially designed printers to print three-dimensional physical objects one layer at a time. The functionalities and any new and unobvious structures created by 3-D printing technologies may be the subject of a utility or a design patent.

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Federal Circuit Continues to Apply Strict Obviousness-Type Double Patenting Analysis

Patently-O

Obviousness-type double patenting is a judge-made doctrine designed to prevent applicants from extending patent rights first obtaining an earlier-expiring patent and then obtaining a later-expiring patent with claims that are obvious variants of those in the earlier patent. Opinion by Judge Clevenger, joined by Judges Taranto and Stoll.

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Empowering Innovation: Women in Patent Filing

Intepat

Women inventors are making significant strides, leaving an indelible mark on the world of innovation and intellectual property. In India, the “share” of female inventors who filed patent applications between 2019-2021 was 10.2%. of all inventors , with men making up the remaining 83.8%.

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Atextual Conditions for Patentability and Stare Decisis

Patently-O

Even if there is no prior art, the USPTO still bars a patentee from obtaining a separate patent claiming an obvious variation of already-issued claims held by the patentee/inventor. In its 2014 Abbvie decision, the Federal Circuit wrote that Obviousness Type Double Patenting is “grounded in the text of the Patent Act.”

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The Quest for a Meaningful Threshold of Invention: Atlantic Works v. Brady (1883)

Patently-O

Brady for an improved dredge boat design. It found that Brady’s claimed arrangement would have been obvious to any skilled engineer tasked with designing a dredge boat, given the existing knowledge in the field. Such inventors are worthy of all favor. 184, 201 (2014). ” Daniel M. & Trademark Off.