Patently-O

DECEMBER 29, 2023

by Dennis Crouch The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a total of 312,100 utility patents in the calendar year 2023. One of the biggest changes from 2022 to 2023 is that non-US patent applicants dropped from 51% of the total down to 48%. This marks the fourth consecutive year of decline in the number of issued patents.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 4, 2024

In Thaler v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks [2023] UKSC 49, the UK Supreme Court ruled that AI cannot be an ‘inventor’ for the purposes of UK patent law.

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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] In Thaler v.

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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. In the case of submitting inventions that do not have a patent in force or pending, they may be submitted as long as they are completely innovative and have not been publicly disclosed.

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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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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

On May 2, 2023, the U.S. that reversed a district court’s decision to grant plaintiff’s request to have their employee listed as an inventor, finding that HIP employee David Howard’s alleged contribution to U.S. 9,980,498 was “insignificant in quality” when “measured against the dimension of the full invention.”.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 27, 2023

On 20 December 2023 the UK Supreme Court handed down its judgment in the long-running saga of the DABUS patent applications in the United Kingdom.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The UK Supreme Court has today handed down its decision Thaler v Comptroller [2023] UKSC 49. The outcome of this appeal turned on three issues: Issue 1 is the scope and meaning of ‘inventor’ in the 1977 Act. The judgment under appeal by the Court of Appeal was reported here.

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Patently-O

APRIL 26, 2023

Though the patent system exists to promote innovation, it also serves to promote inventors and innovators. For more visit, For more stories, and to add your own story , visit the “Inventor’s Diary” at www.diversitypilots.org. What did becoming an inventor mean to you? ” – Sujesha S., ” – Scott S.,

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

” Can you imagine the accolades someone would receive if they contributed to an invention that improves bacon? Well, it turns out that not all contributions count when it comes to being an inventor of a patent for a better method of precooking bacon. Also, Howard was not named as an inventor. The court in Pannu v.

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Patently-O

MAY 25, 2023

2023) The case involving Medtronic and Teleflex centered on five patents related to a coaxial guide catheter used in interventional cardiology procedures. The patentee can then furnish evidence to establish an earlier date of invention, which usually involves a sworn declaration from the inventor, corroborated by additional evidence.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 11, 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a district court decision and found that an asserted inventor not named in the application was not a joint inventor because in the context of the entire invention his contribution was too insignificant to constitute joint inventorship. Hormel Foods Corp., 22-1696 (Fed.

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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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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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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

As part of the America Invents Act (“AIA”), Congress moved the patent system from a first-to-invent to a first-inventor-to-file system. post-AIA) patents owned by SNIPR and a first-to-invent (i.e., post-AIA) patents owned by SNIPR and a first-to-invent (i.e., pre-AIA) patent application owned by Rockefeller.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JULY 25, 2023

Background Blue Gentian is an assignee of Berardi’s six patents involving a collapsible hose, where Berardi is the named inventor. The district court ordered correction of the inventorship for the six patents holding that Ragner should have been a named co-inventor for all of the asserted patents.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 31, 2023

If such new content forms part of a new “invention” (i.e., part of a patent claim), does the AI system need to be listed as an “inventor”? It may all come down to “conception” – that is, whether an AI system can mentally conceive and contribute to an invention. an invention).

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 4, 2023

While the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit made clear this year that only humans can be inventors and that an AI program itself cannot obtain a patent (see our prior coverage of Thaler v. Vidal ), this in no way means that AI-assisted inventions are not patentable. By: MoFo Tech

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 15, 2024

On December 20, 2023, the UK Supreme Court dismissed Dr. Stephen Thaler’s appeal from the Court of Appeal (England and Wales), finding that AI cannot be an inventor because an inventor must be a natural person1. This issue has yet to be addressed in Canada. By: Smart & Biggar

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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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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 16, 2023

But assuming Weber’s account is a fair assessment, I would suggest that it raises additional questions about the ongoing global efforts – driven by Professor Ryan Abbott and his Artificial Inventor Project – challenging the legal barriers to AI inventorship and authorship. What is a ‘fractal bottle’?

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

The Ministry of Commerce and Industry has recently released The Draft Patents (Amendment) Rules 2023 for public comment. Key Details Required: Date of the earliest invention display. Verification if the display was with the true inventor’s consent. Nature of the exhibition where the invention was displayed.

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Olartemoure Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

However, we do know about the first self-propelled wheelchair that was invented in 1655 by Stephan Farfler in Nuremberg , a 22 year old paraplegic clock-maker who built it to aid his own mobility. SWINGBACK WHEELCHAIR FOR EASY TRANSFER OF PATIENTS US20210307979A1 Inventor: Carrie Mabe Assignee: Individual Date of Patent: Oct.

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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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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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The IPKat

AUGUST 8, 2023

The recent High Court decision in Ensygnia v Shell ( [2023] EWHC 1495 (Pat) ) is highly relevant to the ongoing controversy of claim interpretation and description amendments ( IPKat ). The Deputy Judge looked to the description and the inventor's purpose to understand how the term "sign" should be understood.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Responses to this request are due by this Thursday, February 2, 2023. Patent owners, especially small businesses and independent inventors, need two things of the patent system: 1) Reliability/believability. Many of our strategies reflect the startup-nature of our inventions, where we are constantly working on the product-market-fit.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 3, 2024

The grounds for the court’s decision was the definition of “inventor” under the Patents Act 1977 (the Act ) which requires the inventor of a patent to be a natural person. The court unanimously found that AI cannot.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MAY 22, 2023

On May 18, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a unanimous decision in the case of Amgen Inc. This has been interpreted to require that the specification includes enough disclosure to enable any person skilled in the art to make and use the invention without “undue experimentation.” Sanofi, et al. ,

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IP Watchdog

MAY 17, 2023

And the similarly savory subject of who must be named inventor on a bacon patent was the issue in the recent case of HIP, Inc. May 2, 2023). HIP claimed that one of its employees materially contributed to the invention of Hormel’s patent on methods for precooking bacon. Hormel Foods Corp., 2022-1696 (Fed.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

Most of these fee reductions have an effective date of March 22, 2023, with the remaining ones effective as of April 1, 2023. However, the cost of obtaining and maintaining patents may be a barrier for individual inventors and small businesses to benefit from the advantage or enter certain markets.

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LexBlog IP

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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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. PERLMUTTER et al, Docket No. 1:22-cv-01564, Paper No.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 3, 2024

The grounds for the court’s decision was the definition of “inventor” under the Patents Act 1977 (the Act ) which requires the inventor of a patent to be a natural person. So for the moment, the position under the UK patent system is that AI is very much a tool rather than an autonomous agent in its own right.

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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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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 11, 2023

By: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) decision in G 2/21 arose from a case seeking guidance on the evidence requirement for a purported technical effect relied on for inventive step ( IPKat ). The Board of Appeal in T 2465/19 , for example, cited G 2/21 in a case related to the inventive step of a semiconductor.

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