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Legal Lessons from Holiday Lights: Clarity in Patent Drafting

LexBlog IP

This jolly invention lights up each branch individually, featuring a central bus wire nestled near the trunk, branching into 5 to 10 light circuits, each sporting 10 to 20 bulbs. 7,784,961 Before sledding into the patent’s technicalities, the inventor of this Christmas cheer utilized a lesser-known path under U.S.

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Patent – a shield for modern biotechnology

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Thus, a legal safeguard should be provided to inventors for their inventions to keep their interest in science alive. What are the biotechnological inventions? This leads them to think about protecting their inventions from unauthorized use. Who can file a patent application? Who can provide for patent rights?

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AI Visualize and the Eligibility of Innovative AI Systems

Patently-O

2024), gives me pause to consider more general eligibility issues of AI Inventions. When does the design or creation of AI system elements qualify as an eligible invention? Therefore, that limitation could not supply the inventive concept required to transform the claims into patent-eligible subject matter.

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How long does it take to get a patent in 2021? And what about COVID-19?

TraskBritt Intellectual Property

An applicant secures a patent after successfully prosecuting the patent application at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). When the USPTO believes an application embodies an invention worthy of a patent, the USPTO grants a Notice of Allowance. Patentability Search.

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How to review a draft patent application and provide useful comments

Patent Trademark Blog

What types of patent review comments are less important? Avoid spending too much time reviewing the background of the invention. How should you review patent drawings? Patent drawings enable you to claim features that help distinguish your invention from the prior art.

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Patent Prior Art Search

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

This means that an invention should not be anticipated by documents, products, or publications in the country or elsewhere before the priority or filling date of the patent application, whichever is earlier. Prior art search determines the merits of patent applications. It is not necessary for all the technologies to be novel.

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ChatGPT and Intellectual Property (IP) related Topics

LexBlog IP

In particular, ChatGPT is a type of “language” model designed to respond with a natural language reply when prompted with a text-based question. The “Chat” in ChatGPT refers to this question-and-answer design, where ChatGPT behaves like a ChatBot. Patents: Inventorship Can an AI, such as ChatGPT, invent?