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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JD Supra Law

APRIL 20, 2023

On April 18, 2023, we submitted a Supreme Court amicus brief expressing our encouragement for the justices to rule on the question of whether it is proper for an artificial intelligence (AI) to be an inventor on a patent application. The issue has arisen in the Petition for Writ of Certiorari recently filed by Dr. Stephen Thaler.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 7, 2023

We previously discussed the UK Court of Appeal's judgment in Thaler v Comptroller-General of Patents, Trade Marks and Designs in December 2021 (Court of Appeal Judgment on Machine Inventors). Permission to appeal that judgment to the UK Supreme Court was granted on 12 August 2022 and an oral hearing was held on 02 March 2023.

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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. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a precedential opinion in HIP, Inc. Hormel Foods Corp.

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Copyright Alliance

APRIL 25, 2023

The World Intellectual Property Organization is celebrating World IP Day 2023 with the theme Women and IP: Accelerating Innovation and Creativity honoring the pioneering and innovative spirit of women inventors, […] The post The Impactful Leadership of Women Registers of Copyrights (World IP Day 2023) appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 2, 2024

Most inventors can attest to the surprise they felt upon learning that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) likely will not respond to their first patent application for a couple of years after filing.

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Intepat

JANUARY 15, 2024

Registration at UKIPO The case in question, originating in 2019, presents a groundbreaking legal dilemma: Can an artificial intelligence (AI) system be acknowledged as an inventor for the purposes of patent ownership? Uniquely, he declared that he was not the inventor; instead, he attributed the creations to his AI system named DABUS.

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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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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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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The most significant development in IP in Europe in 2023—indeed arguably the most significant in nearly 30 years—was the launch of the Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court on June 1. The full implications of this are explored here. Beyond the UP and UPC, however, there were a number of.

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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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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 5, 2024

On November 22, 2023, United States Magistrate Judge Victoria Reznik (S.D.N.Y.) Judge Reznik explained that the attorney-client privilege belonged to the assignee and not the inventor. provided some rare insight into “the applicability and scope of the attorney-client privilege as it relates to patent counsel.”

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 22, 2023

In Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc v Canada (AG), 2023 FC 768, the Federal Court granted Regeneron’s application to add an inventor to its issued patent, which was the subject of pending litigation. By: Smart & Biggar

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

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. HIP, formerly Unitherm Food Systems, Inc. (“Unitherm”), argued that it had rights to the patent because its president was an inventor and should be added to the patent. Iolab Corp.

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IP Tech Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

Every year, on April 26, intellectual property organizations around the world observe “ World IP Day ” – an event established by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to raise awareness of patents, copyrights, designs, and trademarks, and to celebrate the creativity and contributions of inventors, authors, artists and entrepreneurs.

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 1, 2023

May 24, 2023) In this week’s Case of the Week, a split panel of the Federal Circuit considered issues pertaining to reduction to practice and inventor corroboration as pertained to various related pre-AIA patents owned by appellee Teleflex and directed to guide extension catheters for use in coronary arteries. Medtronic, Inc.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 9, 2023

May 2, 2023) In its only precedential patent opinion this week, the Federal Circuit reversed a district court determination that David Howard should be added as a joint inventor on appellant Hormel’s U.S. Hormel Foods Corp., 2022-1696 (Fed. 9,980,498, which is directed to a two-step method of precooking bacon or meat pieces.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

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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Intellectual Property Law Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

showed the intention of the ‘551 Patent’s inventor to define “storage elements” as “systems that store non-negligible amounts of energy from an input EM signal.” 2023) as a recent example where it reversed the Board’s exclusion of reply brief arguments addressing a newly raised claim construction. Katherin K. 2022-1548, (Fed.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 31, 2023

part of a patent claim), does the AI system need to be listed as an “inventor”? patent law, an inventor is one who contributes to the conception of at least one claim element of a given patent claim (i.e., The Case For Listing an AI as an Inventor: where an AI System can “conceive” In August 2022, the U.S.

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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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JD Supra Law

MAY 8, 2023

On April 23, 2023, the US Supreme Court denied a petition for certiorari filed by Stephen Thaler, following the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s finding that Thaler’s artificial intelligence system — Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Science (DABUS) – could not be considered an “inventor” under the Patent Act and thus (..)

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Patently-O

AUGUST 29, 2023

July 13, 2023). Key Takeaways for Inventors and Startups 1. For inventors and startups seeking to protect IP, it makes sense to also consult with a corporate attorney along the way to ensure consistent protection. Hunton Andrews Kurth, LLP , 14-22-00410-CV (Tex. –Hous.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

While the true value of a technological advance develops over time, the following selection of patents of 2023 represent meaningful advances in several emerging areas of technology. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) tell the story of society’s innovative future.

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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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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.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Katherin K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for IP and USPTO Director No. 2022-1548, (Fed.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

This focus puts putative interests the public may have in reducing present patent rights in favor of future ones, where granting such rights to present inventors (limited as they are in time) is more. patent law towards an emphasis on preventing innovators from obtaining patent rights broader than the minimum to which they may be entitled.

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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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LexBlog IP

APRIL 25, 2023

The theme for 2023 is “ Women and IP.” ” An Example: Women Inventors and Patents The low participation of women in patent systems is well-documented. As noted in my prior blogs here and here , as of 2019, only 13% of inventors listed on US patents are women – and that is up from a mere 8% in 1995.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 10, 2023

A little over halfway through 2023, and nearing the end of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB’s) fiscal year, we can take stock of an administrative body that is settling into a decade of precedent while big changes still loom.

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Olartemoure Blog

JULY 21, 2023

MULTI-CHANNEL BRAIN OR CORTICAL ACTIVITY MONITORING AND METHOD US 11,553,869 B1 Inventors: Stéphane Bibian, Tatjana Zikov Assignee: NeuroWave Systems Inc. SYSTEM FOR VARIABLY CONFIGURABLE, ADAPTABLE ELECTRODE ARRAYS AND SOFTWARE US 11,633,595 B2 Inventor: Michael P. Date of Patent: Jan. Weisend Assignee: STIMSCIENCE INC.

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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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Selvam & Selvam Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

The Ministry of Commerce and Industry has recently released The Draft Patents (Amendment) Rules 2023 for public comment. Verification if the display was with the true inventor’s consent. Interested parties can submit their feedback. Proposed Change: Every three years. Key Details Required: Date of the earliest invention display.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

As for the objective indicia, the Federal Circuit affirmed that the trial record established the presence of unexpected results, including testimony from a researcher listed as an inventor on the ’638 patent, stating that they did not expect a 20-fold difference in potency between apremilast alone and the apremilast containing racemic mixture.

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IPilogue

MARCH 21, 2023

The IP Innovation Clinic, the first student-based clinic of its kind in Canada, is seeking law students from Osgoode Hall Law School to provide assistance to under-resourced inventors, entrepreneurs and start-up companies with their innovation and commercialization activities.

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CoCal IP Law Institute

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

SoCal IP Law Institute MCLE meeting of February 27, 2023 - Emerging IP issues in Artificial Intelligence Please join us Monday, February 27, 2023 where we will discuss emerging IP issues related to artificial intelligence. Vidal (AI inventor case) Andersen et [.]

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