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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. 25 sequence listing added to the pages of a divisional has now been issued ( OJ EPO 2023, A98 ). 26: Is it time for patent offices to enter the bioinformatic age? Looking beyond ST.26:

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Spilling Secrets to AI: Does Chatting with ChatGPT Unleash Trade Secret or Invention Disclosure Dilemmas?

Trading Secrets

Disclosure of Patentable Ideas To figure out if disclosing invention details to ChatGPT is a public disclosure under patent law, we need to see if it can be categorized as a description in a printed publication, public use, or public sale. enablement). The court in Hurry Family Revocable Tr.

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Spilling Secrets to AI: Does Chatting with ChatGPT Unleash Trade Secret or Invention Disclosure Dilemmas?

LexBlog IP

Disclosure of Patentable Ideas To figure out if disclosing invention details to ChatGPT is a public disclosure under patent law, we need to see if it can be categorized as a description in a printed publication, public use, or public sale. enablement). The court in Hurry Family Revocable Tr.

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Spilling Secrets to AI: Does Chatting with ChatGPT Unleash Trade Secret or Invention Disclosure Dilemmas?

LexBlog IP

Disclosure of Patentable Ideas To figure out if disclosing invention details to ChatGPT is a public disclosure under patent law, we need to see if it can be categorized as a description in a printed publication, public use, or public sale. enablement). The court in Hurry Family Revocable Tr.

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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. It is a shame the EPO's otherwise heart-warming story perpetuates a common misconception among independent inventors that testing your invention in public is fine from a patenting perspective.