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[Opinion] Can an AI system be an inventor ?

The IPKat

One question that has recently been in the headlines around the world, thanks to the Artificial Inventor Project, is whether or not an AI system can be regarded as an inventor.

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Infographic | Patented scientific and medical innovations

Olartemoure Blog

DA VINCI SURGICAL SYSTEM EP2444004B1 Inventors: Dr. Frederick Moll and Dr. Robert Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc Date of patent: Mar. 2 nd , 2016 The Da Vinci Surgical System is a robotic surgical platform used for minimally invasive surgery. INFUSION PUMP US4519792A Inventors: Garfield A.

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I Forgot! Retroactive Foreign Filing License Petitions for U.S. Inventors

LexBlog IP

Custom Blinds & Components , 2016 U.S. . § 185 only occurs if the failure to do so was not through error and the invention concerns national security. See , Genes Indus. LEXIS 203623, at *17 (C.D. For more discussion on obtaining a foreign filing license prior to filing an application for a foreign patent, see [link] Read more

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When is an IP agreement between a university and a student inventor unfair?

The IPKat

In 2016, ONI licensed the Nanoimager from the University, whereby the University received royalties on ONI’s sales of the Nanoimager based on the terms of the IP Provisions. Though this part of the judgement was heavily focused on contract law, some significant points regarding student inventors were determined. But unfair?

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SNIPR Tech. Ltd. v. Rockefeller Univ., No. 22-1260 (Fed. Cir. July 14, 2023)

Intellectual Property Law Blog

Under a first-to-invent system, the first person to come up with an invention has “priority” and is entitled to a patent even if there was an earlier filed patent application from a different inventor covering the same invention.

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Industry Snapshot: Cannabis Plant Patents

JD Supra Law

A plant patent is granted to an inventor who has invented or discovered and asexually reproduced a distinct and new variety of plant, other than a tuber propagated plant or a plant found in an uncultivated state. Patent Office between December 20, 2016 and June 29, 2021. By: Jason Nolan

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Amici Back Cisco’s Bid for SCOTUS Review of Enhanced Damages Standard

IP Watchdog

Comcast and the High Tech Inventors Alliance (HTIA) filed amicus briefs last week backing a Supreme Court petition brought by Cisco Systems, Inc. 1923, 1934 (2016) on a first appeal in the case was not meant to create a heightened requirement for willful infringement. last month. Pulse Elecs.,

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