Patently-O

APRIL 25, 2023

The following are my remarks given on April 25, 2023 to the USPTO as part of their AI listening session: by Dennis Crouch Members of the USPTO, and fellow participants of this AI Listening Session, thank you for inviting me here today and for taking time to consider these important issues.

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IPilogue

MARCH 1, 2023

Madeleine Worndl, Lilian Esene, Jennifer Manley, Ibrahim Arif & Natalie Bravo are competitors on Osgoode’s 2023 Harold G. Fox Intellectual Property Moot Team and JD Candidates at Osgoode Hall Law School. Fox Intellectual Property Moot.

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IP Close Up

JUNE 13, 2023

Videos of the five panels and keynote from the 2023 Intellectual Property Awareness Summit – including Andrei Iancu’s compelling analysis of the power of IP Continue reading

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

Background In 2015, Ironburg Inventions Ltd. . § 315(e)(2); and (2) the “skilled and diligent searcher” inquiry itself with respect to what a skilled and diligent searcher reasonably would have been expected to discover. Ironburg”) sued Valve Corporation (“Valve”) for infringing U.S. 8,641,525 (“the ’525 patent”).

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SpicyIP

MAY 17, 2023

Image from the Report The US Trade Representative (USTR) released the Special 301 Report for 2023 on April 26, 2023, and has placed India in the ‘Priority Watch List’, yet again. Prabhat Kumar Saha highlighting certain concerns of the USTR in the 2023 Special 301 Report and assessing the same from a public health perspective.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

On September 15, 2023, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law a new section of the New York Labor Law limiting the assignment of inventions by employees to their employers. California also places a burden on employees to prove that their inventions are not covered by their employee invention assignment agreement.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 19, 2023

A basic understanding of Intellectual Property (IP) law is essential to managing an Amazon storefront, as IP issues can be a minefield for the uninformed. Patents A patent permits the owner to exclude others from making, using, offering to sell, selling, or importing the invention of the patent.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

. § 135, and specifically whether the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (Board) has the authority to cancel SNIPR’s pure AIA claims through an interference for lack of invention priority under pre-AIA § 102(g). patent system from a first-to-invent system to a first-to-file system.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

The Guidance, for USPTO examiners and applicants, addresses inventorship and the use of AI, including generative AI, in the inventive process. The Guidance provides illustrative examples in which AI systems play different roles in the inventive process, to show how the USPTO will analyze inventorship issues.

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IP Close Up

JANUARY 3, 2024

IP CloseUp, weekly perspective on intellectual property trends and business, broke through 392,000 views and 272,000 visits in 2023, on its way to 400,000 plus Continue reading

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 5, 2024

The Guidance, for USPTO examiners and applicants, addresses inventorship and the use of AI, including generative AI, in the inventive process. The Guidance provides illustrative examples in which AI systems play different roles in the inventive process, to show how the USPTO will analyze inventorship issues.

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Trading Secrets

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Background On September 15 th 2023, Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law an amendment to the New York Labor Law. The amendment adds a new Section 203-f to the Labor Law, which addresses the assignment of inventions made by employees. Employers may wonder, what constitutes an “invention”?

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

During the PTAB Masters 2023 program, which was held this week on Tuesday and Wednesday at IPWatchdog’s headquarters in Ashburn, Virginia, former U.S. Kappos was Director during the enactment and implementation of the America Invents Act (AIA), which established the PTAB.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Background On September 15 th 2023, Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law an amendment to the New York Labor Law. The amendment adds a new Section 203-f to the Labor Law, which addresses the assignment of inventions made by employees. Employers may wonder, what constitutes an “invention”?

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

USPTO Extends Combined Patent Search Pilot Program with Japanese Patent Office and Korean Intellectual Property Office @media screen and (max-width: 1023px) {.thegem-vc-text.thegem-custom-63ed303eda0729464{display: The combined petition option and the related process took effect on January 18, 2023.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This Africa IP Highlights 2023 is the result of collaboration between myself and several IP practitioners and researchers across Africa: Clarisse Mideva ; Rita Chindah ; and Jessie Mgonga. from using popular actress, Mercy Johnson's image and intellectual property going forward.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 17, 2023

On September 15, 2023, a new law was signed in New York that prohibits employers from requiring that employees assign certain intellectual property rights to their employer.

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IP Intelligence

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Further to President Biden’s 2023 executive order (EO) on the safe, secure and trustworthy development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) last year ( see [link] ), the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released its much anticipated Inventorship Guidance on AI-Assisted Inventions (“Guidance”). [1] 4] Based on U.S.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The challenged patents both teach a similar claimed invention that is “directed to a poll-based networking system that connects users based on similarities as determined through poll answering and provides real-time results to the users.” ’321 The challenged patents are related and both trace their priority date to U.S. 321 patent col.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

2023 FCA 168], a 3-0 decision, recently set aside the test on subject matter eligibility of computer-implemented inventions laid down by the Federal Court [2022 FC 923] last year. Benjamin Moore & Co.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 19, 2023

As reported, both Houses of Parliament recently passed the Jan Vishwas Bill, 2023 (JV Bill). Major intellectual property rights laws – the Copyright Act, 1957, the Patents Act, 1970, the Trade Marks Act, 1999 and the Geographical Indications Act, 1999, have also been amended.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

USPTO News - On January 18, the USPTO announced the launch of the IP Identifier tool, which is designed to enable users who are less familiar with intellectual property to identify whether they have adequate protections to support their business, invention, or brand. By: WilmerHale

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Reasoning In affirming the Board’s conclusion that a motivation to combine existed to render the invention obvious, the Federal Circuit focused on the fact that both GABA-a agonists and ARBs were known to be useful in the treatment of hypertension. Rea , 762 F.3d 3d 1346 (Fed.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 22, 2023

On 30 November 2023, the Center for Intellectual Property Understanding (CIPU) published the findings of a survey on “Intellectual Property Principle – What the IP Community regards as important” ( executive summary and slides ). The survey was conducted by response:AI, an independent market research firm.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 29, 2023

On June 6, 2023, New York Senate Bill S5640 / Assembly Bill A5295 (“S5640”) won near-unanimous final passage in the New York Assembly with a 147-1 vote, after being passed unanimously by the Senate the previous week. S5640, if signed into law, would introduce such limitations into New York labor law.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 11, 2024

This change represents a considerable shift in the intellectual property law landscape within the country, aiming to promote an environment of genuine innovation and integrity. Genuine Inventive Activities: Requires applications to be based on real and original inventive activities.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 28, 2023

However, in a recent case, the Federal Circuit found that a “machine learning” claim element lacked sufficient enablement because both the claim itself and the written description of the patent to which it belonged failed to describe “ how ” the claimed invention implemented this element. 8, 2023) (nonprecedential).

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JULY 31, 2023

If the prior art discloses a range overlapping a claimed range, the prior art only anticipates the claimed range if it describes the claimed range with sufficient specificity such that a reasonable fact finder could conclude that there is no reasonable difference in how the invention operates over the ranges. Ineos USA LLC v. Genentech, Inc.

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Intepat

MAY 15, 2024

When we talk about Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development, there are 4 major intersections: the People, Planet, Economy, and Intellectual Property. But the US ratified Agenda 21 and the CBD because of the contentious references to intellectual property rights.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

16, 2023) , the Federal Circuit considered whether U.S. Teleflex claimed that Itou was not prior art because the invention claimed in the ’116 patent was conceived before Itou’s critical date and was either actually reduced to practice before the critical date or diligently pursued until its constructive reduction to practice.

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Olartemoure Blog

JUNE 23, 2023

Natural and legal persons may participate in this contest, and the inventions submitted must not have been presented in previous contests. Natural and legal persons may participate in this contest, and the inventions submitted must not have been presented in previous contests.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 13, 2023

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Patently-O

JANUARY 24, 2023

by Dennis Crouch In 2022, the Federal Circuit held that an invention is only eligible for a US patent if a human conceived of the invention. Thus, no patents for invention wholly conceived by artificial intelligence. Jan 10, 2023). Vidal , 43 F.4th 4th 1207 (Fed. Extension Motion. PERLMUTTER et al, Docket No.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 22, 2023

Here are the nominees and winners: Best Patent Law Book The nominations were: Intellectual Property Protection for Plant Related Innovation: Fit for Future? We look forward to reading and reviewing more IP books in 2023! Votes for books that were nominated in the wrong category (e.g.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Supreme Court, where the justices held that a patent covering a class of processes must provide enough information allowing people to replicate the full scope of the invention, landing him a spot among Law360's 2023 Intellectual Property MVPs.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 5, 2023

Background In 2015, Ironburg Inventions Ltd. (“Ironburg”) sued Valve Corporation (“Valve”) for infringing U.S. . § 315(e)(2); and (2) the “skilled and diligent searcher” inquiry itself with respect to what a skilled and diligent searcher reasonably would have been expected to discover.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 23, 2023

On June 22, 2023, Senators Chris Coons (D-DE) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) introduced the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2023 , which seeks to clarify the jurisprudence surrounding 35 U.S.C. § A process that is substantially economic, financial, business, social, cultural, or artistic.

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