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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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Prior Art: The Patent Pitfall

Larson & Larson

A high number of patent applications are given a non-final rejection from the USPTO according to Yale. Often, the reason that the patent office will cite for rejecting an application is the presence of prior art. You may have heard the term ‘prior art’ before in the context of patents. Exceptions.

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