IP Watchdog

APRIL 24, 2023

Vidal, which asked the Court to consider the question: “Does the Patent Act categorically restrict the statutory term ‘inventor’ to human beings alone?” Dr. Stephen Thaler lost his case at the U.S.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In this episode, IMS Senior Client Success Advisor Adam Bloomberg is joined by Professor Ian Cullimore, expert witness and patent inventor, and IMS Trial Consulting Lead Dan Martin to explain how to simplify sophisticated intellectual property into compelling presentations that judges, juries, and tribunals can comprehend.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Burstein: in the past, small inventors were sometimes diverted to design patents by skeevy methods (even though the design patent may have been broader in some ways than the utility patent); this may have contributed to the disrepute/neglect of the design patent regime. More partial designs.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Right now, inventors, businesses, and other interested members of the public often have to undertake time consuming and expensive litigation to determine who owns a patent.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 13, 2021

One question that has recently been in the headlines around the world, thanks to the Artificial Inventor Project, is whether or not an AI system can be regarded as an inventor. The same point can be put in a different way: because DABUS is a thing, it cannot even hold property, let alone transfer it.”

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Delaware Intellectual Property Litigation Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

In Thaler , the Court confronted, analyzed and answered the question of “can an artificial intelligence machine be an ‘inventor’ under the Patent Act?” In reaching its holding, the Court found that “Congress intended to limit the definition of ‘inventor’ to natural persons” which means humans – not artificial intelligence.

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More Than Your Mark

AUGUST 20, 2021

the past decade, the use of 3-D printing has expanded rapidly, in part because the original intellectual property protections on the technology, first invented in the 1980s, expired, making it less expensive to produce the hardware and software involved in the 3-D printing process. 3-D Printing and Copyrights, Patents, or Trademarks.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 5, 2022

Vidal that an artificial intelligence (AI) machine does not qualify as an inventor under the Patent Act. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) ruled today in Thaler v. The decision is the latest in a series of rulings around the world considering the topic, most of which have found similarly. Judge Stark authored the opinion.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

While the Court suggested that questions such as whether inventions like DABUS’ should be patentable and if the meaning of the term “inventor” should be expanded are important ones that should be considered at a policy level, the present case was concerned solely with the interpretation of the present law, which clearly does not contemplate non-human (..)

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The inventor of a novel jump rope system (the Revolution Rope), Molly Metz, argued in a reply brief to the U.S. Supreme Court filed on behalf of her company, Jump Rope Systems, LLC, on Tuesday that her case against Rogue Fitness is justiciable and the company has standing despite the cancellation of her patent claims by the U.S.

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IP Close Up

AUGUST 9, 2022

Earlier this year China issued a detailed “Outline for Building a Powerful Intellectual Property Country.” ” It is an impressive document which needs to be taken Continue reading.

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IP Close Up

JANUARY 3, 2024

IP CloseUp, weekly perspective on intellectual property trends and business, broke through 392,000 views and 272,000 visits in 2023, on its way to 400,000 plus Continue reading

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Well, it turns out that not all contributions count when it comes to being an inventor of a patent for a better method of precooking bacon. HIP, formerly Unitherm Food Systems, Inc. (“Unitherm”), argued that it had rights to the patent because its president was an inventor and should be added to the patent. Iolab Corp.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

On September 25, independent inventor Carolyn Hafeman filed a reply brief arguing that efforts by consumer tech giant LG Electronics to prejudice Hafeman’s legal claims in front of a Western Texas jury require the court to grant a new patent infringement trial in the case.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia issued a decision granting a Motion for Summary Judgment for the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and upholding the Office’s view that AI algorithms cannot be listed as inventors on U.S.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2023

Recovering money from users of technology requires movement on the part of inventors of technology. inventors) to send cease and desist letters, file complaints in federal district court, and at times endure patent litigation to its completion. All of these movements require the inventor to possess a patent.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 12, 2022

Neapco just a few days earlier, inventor David Tropp on July 5 again asked the Court to unravel U.S. Despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection of the petition in American Axle v. patent eligibility law. 101, as interpreted in Alice Corporation Pty v.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 17, 2023

And the similarly savory subject of who must be named inventor on a bacon patent was the issue in the recent case of HIP, Inc. The question of what makes one an “inventor” was central to whether HIP’s employee should be added to the patent. Hormel Foods Corp., 2022-1696 (Fed. May 2, 2023). While AI did not factor into HIP v.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 9, 2022

Vidal ruled that an artificial intelligence (AI) system cannot be listed as a named inventor on a patent application, affirming the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and Eastern District of Virginia rulings. He filed two patent applications at the USPTO, listing DABUS as the sole named inventor on both applications.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 8, 2024

On January 5, 2024, in litigation between REGENXBIO and Sarepta Therapeutics, Judge Richard Andrews of the U.S. Sarepta argued that the claims of the ’617 Patent are directed to naturally occurring AAV sequences and the inventors’ contribution was only the identification of the naturally occurring sequences. § 101.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 31, 2023

Eliezer AI and Intellectual Property Law An Insightful Discussion with Yuri Eliezer The intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Intellectual Property (IP) Law is becoming increasingly significant in the dynamic landscape of technology and innovation. AI and IP Law: Podcast with Yuri Eliezer by Yuri L.

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IP Close Up

MAY 1, 2023

Four IP licensing experts will discuss recent changes in the intellectual property licensing landscape, including generative A.I., and how they are affecting innovation. The all-star Continue reading

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Federal Circuit previously held that an AI system cannot be listed as an inventor in Thaler v. At the outset, the USPTO guidance states that inventions developed with assistance from an AI system are still patentable, as long as a human inventor “significantly contributed” to the invention. Vidal , 43 F.4th

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 27, 2022

On January 21, inventor Martin David Hoyle and his company B.E. Technology filed a response in opposition to a consolidated motion to dismiss that was filed last November by defendants Michelle K. Lee, former Director of the U.S.

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IP Close Up

JANUARY 13, 2022

Frederick Shelton IV, arguably the most prolific and financially successful inventors ever, is a Johnson & Johnson medical device innovator unknown to pretty much everyone Continue reading.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 9, 2022

The Court’s denial of opportunities to clarify this issue has caused American inventors to unreasonably weigh the risk of disclosing their inventions against the uncertainty of acquiring a patent. The purpose of the patent system is to provide economic incentive for inventors to disclose their knowledge to the public sphere.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In the decade since the America Invents Act (AIA) was enacted, patent licensing challenges have increased for many technology companies and independent inventors. IP business models will evolve, and risk and return calculations will become more reliable. grants for the first half of 2021.

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IP Tech Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

Every year, on April 26, intellectual property organizations around the world observe “ World IP Day ” – an event established by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to raise awareness of patents, copyrights, designs, and trademarks, and to celebrate the creativity and contributions of inventors, authors, artists and entrepreneurs.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) have reached different conclusions regarding “the creative and conceiving capabilities of machines,” which leads to intellectual property (IP) law being self-contradictory. Copyright Office (USCO) and the U.S.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 17, 2022

Gilbert Hyatt, an inventor who has been granted more than 70 patents and has filed more than 400 applications with the U.S. Hyatt has been embroiled in litigation with the USPTO for decades and won a previous Supreme Court appeal in 2012. . Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), has petitioned the U.S.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

As a person involved in copyright on a daily basis, I’ve observed a number of events and requests for comment over the last few years on the issue of whether artificial intelligence (AI) systems can be “authors” in the copyright sense (or inventors of patents). Below are my thoughts on what is interesting about these cases.

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Kashishipr

MAY 5, 2021

The maximum number of cases are witnessed in the software industry wherein statistics project that as many as 74 percent of the patents issued are being litigated. These claims are ultimately easier and cheaper for competing companies in the market to settle rather than to litigate. Point of View 2: Patent Trolls do Hurt Innovation.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 2, 2022

federal government to address patent quality, abusive litigation and forum shopping. Unfortunately, the proposed reforms would help very little, if at all, toward improving certainty and clarity in patent rights in a way that would actually improve American innovation by supporting small startups and individual inventors in our country.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 24, 2022

House of Representative’s Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet held a similar hearing featuring six witnesses with varying views on the PTAB about how to improve the system.

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IP Close Up

JANUARY 6, 2022

In the latest episode of ‘Understanding IP Matters’, which dropped today on leading podcast platforms, award-winning inventor Dan Brown says that the patent winds have shifted and are blowing Continue reading.

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IP Law 360

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

needs to overhaul its intellectual property policy before it loses more innovation ground to China, while Federal Circuit Judge Kathleen O'Malley said too many would-be inventors can't withstand litigation in the current system. Patent and Trademark Office Director Andrei Iancu suggested Tuesday the U.S.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 16, 2023

Some inventors are celebrated for how their creations have profoundly enhanced our lives, while others are frowned upon for leaving behind environmental catastrophes. occupies a peculiar space in the world of inventors, where his groundbreaking works are both applauded and criticized in equal measure. Thomas Midgley Jr.

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