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 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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Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

AUGUST 23, 2023

The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (“CIPO”) has announced that effective January 1, 2024, most official fees will be increasing by 25%. Significant CIPO Fee Increase Effective January 1, 2024, a one-time 25% fee increase will be implemented, impacting most patent, industrial design, trademark and copyright fees.

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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. an AI] prompt.

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IP Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

2022-1861, 2024 WL 89642 (Fed. Zillow , 2024 WL 89642, at *3; see also Alice , 573 U.S. Zillow , 2024 WL 89642, at *3. At step two, the Court found that IBM’s allegations of inventiveness “do[] not. This decision is but one more example that courts “need not accept a patent owner’s conclusory allegations of inventiveness.”

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) and the United States Copyright Office (“USCO”) delivered a report to Congress entitled Non-Fungible Tokens and Intellectual Property on March 12, 2024 (“Report”). While the Report is comprehensive, it does not recommend any new action to address IP issues with NFTs.

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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: at Franklin Pierce School of Law with a focus on Intellectual Property.

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IP Intelligence

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released its much anticipated Inventorship Guidance on AI-Assisted Inventions (“Guidance”). [1] 1] The Guidance is retroactive, meaning it applies to all patent applications and issued patents filed before, on or after February 13, 2024. 4] Based on U.S. 5] Stated otherwise, a natural person (e.g.,

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

On February 20, 2024, a Brazilian congress member, Antônio Luiz Rodrigues Mano Júnior (known as Júnior Mano), introduced a bill to amend the national IP Statute (Law #9,279/96) and regulate the ownership of inventions generated by artificial intelligence systems.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) may change how we invent: many envision a collaborative approach between human inventors and AI systems that develop novel solutions to problems together. Such AI-assisted inventions present a new set of legal issues under patent law. On February 13, 2024, the U.S. 101 and 115.

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The IPKat

MARCH 27, 2024

Events and conferences 7 May 2024: The Professor Bill Cornish Memorial Lecture 2024 This year’s Bill Cornish Memorial Lecture is titled “Intellectual Property norms in the Polycrisis – (Still) Omnipresent, Distracting, Irrelevant?” and will be delivered by Professor Caroline Ncube (University of Cape Town) on 7 May 2024.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The America Invents Act created inter partes review in 2012. This article was originally posted to Law360. Statutory estoppel is one of the features of the statute that balances the interests of patent owners and patent challengers. 35 U.S.C. § 315(e)(2).

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

patent application has a duty to disclose to the USPTO all information which is materially relevant in assessing the patentability of the invention. With the advent of such AI-assisted inventions, the USPTO is rethinking its requirements regarding the duty of disclosure. On February 13, 2024, the U.S. 101 and 115.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

However, it is unknown to many that a significant amount of money and laws are in place to protect various Intellectual Property assets related to the Olympic games. It is speculated that the trademarks for the Beijing 2022, Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028 Olympics have already been registered. Image Source: Flickr].

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SpicyIP

APRIL 30, 2024

His passion lies in understanding the intersection of economics and public health with intellectual property rights. This post attempts to critically analyse the relevance of difference in the purported function of the invention and prior art to determine non-obviousness in identifying the inventive step.

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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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Intellectual Property Law Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

200, passed in 1980, streamlined and relaxed federal government policy regarding patent rights to inventions developed with federal grant money. The funding agency obtains a license to “subject inventions,” which is defined as “any invention. . . The invention of the patent at issue in the case ( U.S. 35 U.S.C. §

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 31, 2023

To what extent, for example, will the UPC take notice of EPO Board of Appeal decisions and adopt EPO practices, such as the ‘problem/solution’ approach to inventive step? Internet Policy & Politics Conference will be held on January 27 2024, at the University of Oxford. And what are the pros and cons of each?

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The IPKat

JULY 22, 2022

On 21 July 2022, Member States of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) approved the convening of diplomatic conferences on designs and genetic resources, no later than 2024. Diplomatic conferences are negotiating rounds where multilateral treaties are adopted or revised.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

With the WIPO Diplomatic Conference fast approaching in May 2024, this Kat considered how the proposal for a disclosure of origin requirement in patent applications for inventions based on genetic resources compares with the recent law reform efforts in Australia and India.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Rose Hughes outlined the recent EPO Board of Appeal decision ( T 1356/21 ), which discussed the criterion of novelty for pharmaceutical dosage regimes and selection inventions, as well as the reliance on an unexpected technical effect for inventive step.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 30, 2024

The amended Regulations came into effect on 20 January 2024. The Regulations further allow a design application to claim priority from a previously filed PRC invention patent or utility model application, thus protecting the aesthetic aspects of a product disclosed in the figures of the invention patent or utility model specification.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

One of the topics which raises many legal issues, particularly with generative AI (“genAI”), is intellectual property. We will have to continue to wait on the other issues until later in 2024. It addresses many of the risks and problems that can arise with AI.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

2024 WL 629985, No. 30, 2024) (R&R) Recommendation: Dastar should block Qingdao’s Lanham Act false advertising counterclaims based on Lashify’s claim to be the originator of lash technology, but false patent marking counterclaims should survive. Lashify, Inc. Qingdao Lashbeauty Cosmetic Co., W-22-CV-00776-ADA-DTG, No.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

February 9, 2024) addressed two issues: (1) when the written description requirement is met in the context of a claimed range that is narrower than the ranges disclosed in the patent specification, and (2) the kind of prior art disclosure language which supports a finding of a motivation to combine for an obviousness rejection. 4th 1323 (Fed.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Although in theory the ruling should provide more clarity on the increasingly important question of the patentability of computer-implemented inventions ( CIIs ), the opposing views taken by the two camps of justices may instead create an environment for greater disputation. ’ [16] Is the claimed invention a manner of manufacture? .’

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IP Close Up

APRIL 30, 2024

Alan Nelson, a pioneering biomedical engineer and entrepreneur, shared his three-decades of experience with AI machine learning at the recent IP Awareness Summit. The science, Continue reading

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 16, 2021

Global revenues in the food delivery sector have doubled between 2017 and 2020 and are expected to reach $97 billion USD by the year 2024. The top four delivery apps saw a year-over-year increase of $3 billion in combined revenues when comparing the second and third quarters of 2019 and 2020.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 19, 2024

Intellectual property protection; to effectively protect their intellectual property assists and prevent competitors from using the same or similar marks understanding the nuance of trademark law enables it. Fanciful marks and coined terms offer stronger protection.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2024

The MTA pilot program for America Invents Act (AIA) proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) stems back to March 2019, when the Office published a notice of pilot program in the Federal Register announcing that patent owners would have the opportunity to seek preliminary guidance on MTAs from the Board itself.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 13, 2024

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) and the United States Copyright Office (“USCO”) delivered a report to Congress entitled Non-Fungible Tokens and Intellectual Property on March 12, 2024 (“Report”).

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The USPTO issued inventorship guidance and examples for AI-assisted inventions. The guidance, which went into effect February 13, 2024, makes clear that AI-assisted inventions are not categorically unpatentable. A link to the Federal Register where the guidance has published can be found here.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 1, 2024

Controller of Patents declared that the subject invention had technical effects. The court directed a response from the registry by January 4, 2024, and instructed to include technical details and other concerns about the action in the response. Read Bharathwaj Ramakrishnan’s take on this contradiction within the judgement.

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IIPRD

MARCH 21, 2024

Introduction Competition law and intellectual property rights (IPR) are like two different sides of the same coin, as they both work to ensure vibrancy in the market and promote consumer welfare. The changing landscape of intellectual property rights (IPRs) and competition law Isn’t it too early to say that CCI will prevail over IPR?

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The IPKat

JANUARY 12, 2024

AIPPI Rapid Reaction on Thaler in the Supreme Court next Thursday Next Thursday, 18 January, AIPPI UK is hosting their first event of 2024 and it's a good one - and online! Professor Ryan Abbott represented Dr Thaler, and has advocated widely for patents on AI-generated inventions.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 11, 2024

Case Summaries Therelek Machines Private Limited vs Therelek Engineers Private Limited on 28 February, 2024 (Karnataka High Court) The petitioner challenged the rejection of its interim application under Section 124 of the Trade Marks Act, seeking a stay in a suit for trademark infringement.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 15, 2024

2024), a case that may reshape the dynamics between trade secrets and patent rights. The Core Issue at Hand This case centers around the America Invents Act (AIA) and whether a product’s prior sale by the patent applicant can disqualify the patenting of the method used to produce said product. v ITC, 22-1827 (Fed.

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