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

Patently-O

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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DABUS Again Denied in the US and the UK, Part II – the Split Decision in the UK

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While all three judges on the Court of Appeal agreed that an ‘inventor’ under the UK law must be a human being, the fact that DABUS is a machine was not immediately determinative of the outcome. In the event, the answer to this question turned on whether or not the applicant (i.e. PDF 998kB] ).

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Celanese v. ITC: Can a Secret Manufacturing Process Be Patented After Sale of the Resulting Product?

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by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit held oral arguments on March 4, 2024 in the important patent case of Celanese Int’l. The question: Under the AIA, does sale of a product by the patent applicant prohibit the patentee from later patenting the process used to make the product? v ITC , 22-1827 (Fed. Garlock, Inc. ,

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Artificial intelligence and intellectual property rights: the USPTO DABUS decision

Barry Sookman

In the meantime, the USPTO just released a decision denying the application for a such a patent holding that under the U.S. patent law, 35 USC §§ 1 et seq. an inventor must be a natural person. Title 35 of the United States Code consistently refers to inventors as natural persons. For example, 35 U.S.C. §

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Defining Boundaries: IP Law Addresses Exterritoriality, Lexicography & Human Touch

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As one might imagine, patent law frequently comes down to what particular terms in a patent mean, and because the whole point of a patent is to describe a new invention, existing language may sometimes now fully capture what an invention, or element thereof, really is. Vitronics Corp. Brunswick Corp., 3d 1359, 1366 (Fed.

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Fish & Richardson Elevates 15 Attorneys to Principal in Class Distinguished by Diversity of Background and Experience

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

with a patent law concentration with intellectual property certificate, from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 2013. While there, he was a member of the IP and Technology Law Society, Military Law Society, and National Black Law Students Association. Joel received his J.D.,