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Key Points from the USPTO’s New Guidance on AI Use

IP Intelligence

AI Patentability and Inventorship: Practitioners also face the prospect of having an AI drafting program add details, such as embodiments or other features, to an application draft that could be part of a claim or later become part of a claim. July 7, 2023). [2] persons may be deemed an export.” [2] Avianca Inc.,

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Federal Circuit Narrows AIA Grace Period: Public Disclosure Must Make Invention ‘Reasonably Available’

Patently-O

2023-1336 (Fed. The basic holding is that the 102(a)(2)/(b)(2) safe harbor triggered by an inventor’s pre-filing “public disclosure” of the invention requires that the invention be made “reasonably available to the public.” Mostly funded through a public KickStarter campaign).

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The IPKat EPO Boards of Appeal Year in Review 2022

The IPKat

Despite the EPO's continued insistence that the issue is settled ( IPKat ), we can expect the issue to rumble on into 2023. Even if (as has been suggested by observers prepared to be forgiving to the EPO) the couple are patent attorneys, the girl has nonetheless disclosed her invention just by using it on the public streets of Munich.

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The IPKat EPO Boards of Appeal Year in Review 2023

The IPKat

This week, the UK supreme court finally rejected the appeal by Dr Thaler to have DABUS named as an inventor on a patent application. Bad cases make bad law: Has DABUS "the AI inventor" actually invented anything? Use of large language models in the patent industry: A risk to patent quality?

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