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Generative AI and Patent Considerations – Part Two

Intellectual Property Law Blog

Industry stalwarts and startups alike have launched generative models that can create new text, images, video, 3D models, and even software code — with the promise of more powerful and disruptive innovations to soon follow. Patent strategies should reflect the current legal landscape as well as anticipate potential future legal developments.

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When Is Trade Secret Protection the Right Choice?

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IP rights come in several forms: copyrights, trademarks, patents, and trade secrets. Copyright Office explains, copyrights protect “original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture.” A patent protects an invention.

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Use of large language models in the patent industry: A risk to patent quality?

The IPKat

We are now awash with companies claiming to provide LLM software capable of drafting, prosecuting and challenging patents. This post will instead focus on the potential short to medium term impact of LLMs on the patent profession. No software tool predating LLMs had anything close to this ability.

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ChatUSG: What Companies Doing Business with the Government Need to Know About Artificial Intelligence

Intellectual Property Law Blog

Some of these issues are specific to doing business with the government and others are broader issues that all companies face when using AI, and generative AI (GAI) in particular. Many employees are experimenting with AI in connection with their work. As a result, many companies are developing corporate policies on employee use of AI.

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Never too late: in case you missed the IPKat last week

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Eleonora Rosati discussed a CJEU decision on communication to the public under Article 3 of the InfoSoc Directive, which drew a distinction between broadcasting music on a plane or train, being a communication to the public, and installing sound equipment (and enabling software), which is not.

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When Is Trade Secret Protection the Right Choice?

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IP rights come in several forms: copyrights, trademarks, patents, and trade secrets. Copyright Office explains, copyrights protect “original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture.” As the U.S.

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Printed Publication: Documents Made Available only to Customers

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The 1836 Patent Act added the caveat that no patent should issue on an invention previously “described in any printed publication.” ” That language has carried through the various major patent law overhauls and continues as a prominent aspect of 35 U.S.C. by Dennis Crouch. 102(a)(1). Cisco Systems, Inc. ,