Patently-O
AUGUST 26, 2022
The basis for the argument was that the application that led to the patent-in-suit had been filed while Afana had been married (to Kassam) and, by operation of Texas’ community property law, Kassam had an ownership interest in the issued patent that had not been assigned to Mobile Equity and had not been joined as a co-plaintiff.
IP Intelligence
APRIL 24, 2023
Combine that “mastermind/dominant” author doctrine with the run of cases discussing ownership of software outputs (i.e., Copyright Office (the Office) when it comes to copyright ownership of artificial intelligence (AI) output. the “lion’s share” cases), and we see that the notion of what an “author” even is is highly nuanced.
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LexBlog IP
APRIL 24, 2023
Combine that “mastermind/dominant” author doctrine with the run of cases discussing ownership of software outputs (i.e., Copyright Office (the Office) when it comes to copyright ownership of artificial intelligence (AI) output. The Office has answered that question with a resounding “maybe.” ” U.S.
Patently-O
DECEMBER 13, 2023
Specifically, courts want to prevent applicants from unjustly extending patent protection with repetitive filings on obvious variants of their own inventions. The Board also found that avoiding dependence/tolerance would be an inherent result of carrying out the methods of Pasteur’s earlier 2014 patent. See Baxter.
More Than Your Mark
AUGUST 20, 2021
the past decade, the use of 3-D printing has expanded rapidly, in part because the original intellectual property protections on the technology, first invented in the 1980s, expired, making it less expensive to produce the hardware and software involved in the 3-D printing process. An example of this is a 2014 initiative by Hasbro, Inc. ,
IP and Legal Filings
AUGUST 19, 2022
In the past, CIRCA 2014, the ‘Creative Machine’, also known as DABUS (Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience), was able to create artistic works made up of thousands of pictures using machine learning. Several Jurisdictions however, copyright ownership has already been granted to computer generated works.
CopyrightsWorld
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
This article is part of our series showcasing well-known copyright ownership cases from the music and film industries, technology, and more. This week’s post looks at three well-known copyright infringement cases involving tech giants battling each other over ownership rights. Apple vs. Microsoft.
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