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DABUS Gets Its First Patent in South Africa Under Formalities Examination

IP Watchdog

South Africa’s patent office has granted the first patent for an invention conceived by an artificial intelligence (AI) inventor, DABUS. The patent is for “a food container based on fractal geometry,” and was accepted by South Africa’s Companies and Intellectual Property Commission on June 24.

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Gender Bias Persists in the Global Patent Landscape

IPilogue

According to a recent study published in UNSW Law Journal , feminized names are less likely to be granted a patent in Australia. The study investigated female patenting rates in Australia over a period of 15 years. The study revealed that male sounding names were much more likely to have their patents granted.

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Fish & Richardson Elevates 15 Attorneys to Principal in Class Distinguished by Diversity of Background and Experience

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With deep expertise in litigation and patent prosecution and counseling, the attorneys represent clients across a range of industries and in various legal venues. Newly promoted principals for 2023 are: Ashley Bolt has experience handling complex patent and intellectual property litigation in U.S. Moore of the U.S.

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2021 IP Year in Review

IPilogue

Pina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode, the IP Intensive Program, and the IP Innovation Clinic, the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the IPilogue, the Deputy Editor of the Intellectual Property Journal, and an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. Patent Prosecution History Now Admissible as Evidence.

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In First Half of 2021, 63% of U.S. Patents, 48.9% at EPO and 40.1% in China Were Software-Related

IP Watchdog

Further, it has been 10 years since famed venture capitalist Marc Andreessen wrote the influential and often-quoted op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal titled “Why Software Is Eating the World.” Kalo Inoculant Co.). Today, the digital transformation where software is “eating the world” is undeniable.

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PTAB Declares that Broad Institute, MIT, and Harvard Inventors Were First to Invent a CRISPR-Cas Gene Editing System to Alter Gene Expression in Eukaryotic Cells

LexBlog IP

On February 28, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“ PTAB ”) issued a decision on priority in an interference proceeding between the Broad Institute, Inc. Patent Application No. The inventors listed on Broad’s patent are Feng Zhang, Ph.D., 8,697,359 or claim 156 of CVC’s U.S. 15/981,807.