Patently-O

JANUARY 24, 2023

Thaler’s petition for writ of certiorari to the US Supreme Court would have been due last week, but Thaler was able to obtain an extension with the petition now being due March 19, 2023. Thaler’s main attorney throughout this process has been Professor Ryan Abbott. Thaler then sued in DC District Court.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 23, 2023

Last year, we saw a real paradigm change in the ability of these generative models, now open to the public online, to make art and literature and images and text at scale in ways that have value to people,” Prof. Ryan Abbott states. Today, artistic automatons increasingly share our world.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 20, 2022

In the last quarter of 2020, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) reported that patent filings for Artificial Intelligence (AI) related inventions more than doubled from 2002 to 2018. Start a discussion or reach out to the author, Ryan Phelan, at rphelan@marshallip.com or 312-474-6607.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Reports over the last few days suggest that things may be getting worse. An RCI article published Friday mentions a lawsuit that lists more than 1,900 IP addresses allegedly linked to piracy of the Ryan Reynolds movie Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 18, 2021

Last year, DABUS created a “food container based on fractal geometry” with inputs from Dr Thaler as well as Ryan Abbott from the University of Surrey. Moreover, it was noted that Australian patent laws do not compulsorily require the existence of a human author. Justice Beach then proceeded to analyse the term ‘inventor’.

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Patently-O

MARCH 26, 2024

Pedraza-Fariña & Ryan Whalen, A Network Theory of Patentability , 87 U. The interplay between economic and cognitive rationales in Atlantic Works has had a lasting influence on the development of the nonobviousness doctrine. A recent article by Laura G. 63, 67 (2020).

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IPilogue

JANUARY 14, 2022

This article features contributions from Ryan Wong (IP Osgoode & IP Innovation Clinic Alumnus), Sabrina Macklai (IPilogue Senior Editor), Tianchu Gao (IPilogue Writer), and Ashley Moniz (IPilogue Managing Editor). The Reasonable Robot by Ryan Abbott: Legally regulating AI–is it obvious? 2021 was an exciting year for the IPilogue.

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