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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). enablement). Thankfully, the U.S.

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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). enablement). Thankfully, the U.S.

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Yes, A Secret Process Can (Still) Create an On-Sale Bar

IP Tech Blog

the Supreme Court held that an inventor’s sale of an invention to a third party who is obligated to keep the invention confidential can create an on-sale bar under AIA §102(a). In its 2018 decision in Helsinn Healthcare S.A. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. , 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) (pre-AIA). 35 U.S.C. § 102(a)(1) (AIA)(emphasis added).

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Intellectual Property Rights and Federally Funded Research

LexBlog IP

However, if the Contractor fails to report any inventions to the contracting officer within two months of preparing the corresponding patent applications, the Contractor risks losing ownership of those inventions. The nations in which the Contractor seeks to file the patent application. important;}}.

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Yes, A Secret Process Can (Still) Create an On-Sale Bar

LexBlog IP

the Supreme Court held that an inventor’s sale of an invention to a third party who is obligated to keep the invention confidential can create an on-sale bar under AIA §102(a). In its 2018 decision in Helsinn Healthcare S.A. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. , ” 35 U.S.C. § § 102(b) (pre-AIA). ” 35 U.S.C. §

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The IPKat EPO Boards of Appeal Year in Review 2023

The IPKat

This approach contrasts with the Board of Appeal decision in T 1158/20 which controversially found that G 1/21 could be dynamically interpreted (or to put it less favourably, ignored) in view of the significant improvements in ViCo technology. Interestingly, no other Board of Appeal has yet cited T 1158/20.

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