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The AI-Assisted Invention

JD Supra Law

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming a major force in the world of technology, with its ability to create new content and even replicate the styles of individual humans, including as a tool used by inventors in the creation of patent-eligible technology. By: Venable LLP

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Why Should You Patent Your Invention?

Intepat

A patent is a form of intellectual property right granted to an invention. It gives the inventor or patent owner exclusive rights and prevents others from manufacturing, selling, or marketing the invention. Why should I patent my invention? Patent patent your invention

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Patent Protection on AI Inventions

Intellectual Property Law Blog

In the following sections, we will discuss an illustrative list of subject areas that may offer patentable AI inventions. (1) In recent years, AI patent activity has exponentially increased.

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Patent Protection for Entertainment Software Inventions

JD Supra Law

Innovators seeking patent protection for entertainment software inventions should be aware that all software inventions face patent-eligibility issues.

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How to Write an Invention Disclosure

IP.com

Invention disclosure documents are the important first steps in the IP commercialization process. If you improperly write your invention disclosure, it can result in a complete loss of your patent rights down the road.

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State of inventiveness in Europe

IAM Magazine

The region is lagging behind its global peers in invention productivity but there are ways this gulf can be crossed

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State of inventiveness in Europe

IAM Magazine

The region is lagging behind its global peers in invention productivity but there are ways this gulf can be crossed

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Year’s ‘Best’ Inventions Show the Breadth of Today’s Creators and Speed to Marketplace – For Some

IP Close Up

From the drawing board to the marketplace, a broad range of imaginative new inventions are reaching people faster and wider. Amazingly, many of TIME magazine’s best inventions Continue reading.

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The ‘Restoring America Invents Act’ Would Open the Floodgates for Patent Owner Harassment

IP Watchdog

The much discussed, but previously unreleased, Restoring America Invents Act has finally been made public.

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Determination of the closest prior art in the inventiveness examination of Chinese invention patents

JD Supra Law

In the practice of patent examination in China, to determine whether an invention has prominent substantive features is to determine, to the person skilled in the art, whether the claimed invention is non-obvious as compared with the prior art.

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Black Inventors and Their Inventions

JD Supra Law

Among these triumphs are the inventions black inventors have contributed, many of which were not recognized with a patent because the Patent Acts of 1793 and 1836 barred slaves from obtaining patents because they were not considered citizens.

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Only Humans are Inventive?

Patently-O

In the case, Thaler claims to own a computer named DABUS, and that DABUS conceived-of two patentable inventions. Of all the arguments presented, I thought that Thaler’s best relied upon Section 103’s statement that patentability shall not depend upon “the manner in which the invention was. Thaler argued that the PTO was, in fact, refusing to issue a patent because the invention was made by an AI rather than a human. By Dennis Crouch.

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Invention Stories: Ring Tackles Better Home Security

IP.com

The post Invention Stories: Ring Tackles Better Home Security appeared first on IP.com - IP Innovation and Analytics. Innovation

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How Popular Inventions Came to Life: Who Invented the Air Conditioner?

IP.com

Willis Carrier invented the air conditioner in 1902 and was granted a patent for the invention in 1906. Carrier’s invention was the culmination of centuries of experimentation with air, water, The post How Popular Inventions Came to Life: Who Invented the Air Conditioner?

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Cross-Border Inventing

Patently-O

The top (blue-circle) series looks generally at cross-border joint-inventing while the lower (orange-square) series reports a subset where at least one of the inventors has a US residence. The rise in cross-border inventing also correlates with the rise in joint inventorship.

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Ten Years of the America Invents Act: Toward a More Objective and Accurate Patent System

IP Watchdog

When the America Invents Act (AIA) was before Congress a decade ago, it was heralded as the first comprehensive patent law since the 1952 Act. Ten years’ perspective on the new law, however, shows that its changes to patent policy have been more evolution rather than revolution.

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This Week in Washington IP: Celebrating Black Invention with Invent Together, USPTO Begins Symposium Series on Women’s Entrepreneurship, and House Committee Holds Hearing on U.S. Innovation

IP Watchdog

Elsewhere, Invent Together hosts an event to honor Black inventors and hear from a variety of Black inventors and entrepreneurs.

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The Rise Of The Machines—When Inventions Invent

JD Supra Law

USPTO, EPO, and Precedent- As some readers may recall, the increasing efficacy and ubiquity of artificial intelligence has instigated philosophical and legal debate concerning whether an artificial intelligence may itself be considered the inventor of an innovation it has generated.

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Keeping Your Federally-Funded Inventions: Requirements to Comply with the Bayh-Dole Act

JD Supra Law

Any invention conceived or reduced to practice with the assistance of federal funding is subject to the Bayh-Dole Act, which provides for ownership of such inventions, but only if the grantee (referred to in the Act as a “contractor”) abides by the terms.

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Pioneer Inventions

Patently-O

Pioneer Inventions pic.twitter.com/e5a8gA7UMx. — Dennis Crouch (@patentlyo) October 7, 2021. Patent

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Dear Patenticity: Still Inventing

JD Supra Law

Dear Patenticity, My company has several new product concepts under development right now, and some are very early in the design process. We are in a very competitive space, so we want to protect our work with patents to the extent we can.

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Can Computer Systems Using Artificial Intelligence Patent their own Inventions?

JD Supra Law

Increasingly, companies are using artificial intelligence to invent new methods and products. But can a named inventor be a non-human machine under the law? . By: Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

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PTO invents perpetual spam machine

Likelihood of Confusion

The post PTO invents perpetual spam machine appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Understanding The Patent Specification Of An Invention

Intepat

A patent specification is a disclosure to the public at large regarding the invention as well as the scope of protection that would be granted to the invention. The Patent Rules, 2003 ( the Rules ) also particularly deal with the specification of an invention.

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Celebrating (?) the America Invents Act: Ten Years On, Many IP Stakeholders Say it’s Time for a Second Look

IP Watchdog

During IPWatchdog LIVE 2021 in Dallas, Texas, I asked a handful of willing attendees for their thoughts on the impact of the America Invents Act (AIA) in anticipation of today, the ten-year anniversary of the day President Barack Obama signed the AIA into law.

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Patent Protection on AI Inventions

JD Supra Law

In recent years, AI patent activity has exponentially increased. The figure below shows the volume of public AI patent applications categorized by AI component in the U.S. from 1990-2018. The eight AI components in FIG. 1 are defined in an article published in 2020 by the USPTO.

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How to Improve an Invention with IP.com

IP.com

The post How to Improve an Invention with IP.com appeared first on IP.com - IP Innovation and Analytics. New ideas—even really good ones—aren’t ready for a patent application and spot on store shelves right out of the gate. The most successful ideas aren’t actually very new at all.

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Inventing Chaos with the Moderna/NIH Dispute

IP Watchdog

Moderna and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are poised for a legal battle over inventorship of a vaccine for COVID-19. While a court may resolve the dispute over inventorship for the patent application, court review of current inventorship rules could be a slippery slope to chaos.

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Federal Circuit Ruling Reinforces Importance of Documenting Inventions Pre-Collaboration

JD Supra Law

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently reversed an appeal of a decision granting summary judgment that an invention was reduced to practice during the term of a cooperative research and development agreement thereby granting the government a license to use the invention.

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The Corporation as an Inventive Artificial Intelligence

Patently-O

Yes, a corporation may own or license an invention and its resulting patents. But, the law persists in most nations as it has for more than 200 years that patentable inventions must begin with a human person, the inventor. In that sense, there is no “corporate invention” because corporate ownership of patent rights are derived rather than original—they stem from a transfer of property rights from human inventors who begins the chain of title.

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AI Systems May Invent, But Are They Inventors?

JD Supra Law

Arguably, an AI system, which is a non-human, can also create or invent. Previously, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“Federal Circuit”) has found that a non-human may infringe patents. But can an AI system be a named inventor on a patent?

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Reward and remuneration for service inventions

IAM Magazine

Reward has nothing to do with whether the invention-creation has been exploited and the economic benefit obtained therefrom; the employee-­inventor has the right to request a reward once the patent right is granted. For service inventions, the inventor shall neither be denied a

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Patent protection for software inventions in Europe

IAM Magazine

Inventions related to user interfaces, business methods, mathematical methods and simulations require extra care in Europe. Inventions related to image processing and cryptography are usually considered to have technical character in Europe

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Building Biotech with Brains: Strategies for Maximizing Value of AI-Driven Biotechnology Inventions

JD Supra Law

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in biotechnology products and services is becoming a driver of the personalized medicine and health care sectors.

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Boards of Appeal back rejection of special criteria for the novelty of purity inventions, but the Guidelines remain out of step (T 0043/18)

The IPKat

Historically, the EPO has used a higher bar to assess the novelty for purity of compound inventions. Previously, purity inventions were only considered novel if a high purity could not be achieved by conventional means.

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Principle of Holistic Consideration in Inventiveness Determination

JD Supra Law

The invention shall be considered as a whole. Under Section 3.1

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You Developed a New Invention – How Do You Determine if it is Patentable?

JD Supra Law

An invention developed by a business or individual inventor may have great value to that business or individual, either through the commercialization of the invention or by licensing the invention to others in return for a license fee.

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What’s the invention?

Patently-O

Patent Application Publication No. 2022-0194583 (2022). Patent

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Who Invented What?

Patently-O

HYPO: Human uses a corporate owned AI to generate an invention. AI's contribution would be co-inventive if it were human. Who invented? — Dennis Crouch (@patentlyo) April 19, 2022. Patent

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Do More with Your Invention Disclosures

IP.com

The proper authorship of invention disclosures as an internal document meant to record and communicate the processes and products of early-stage innovation can be overlooked.

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A Split Develops: Can Artificial Intelligence Invent Stuff?

JD Supra Law

There is a split developing in the world over whether artificial intelligence software (AI) can be listed as an inventor on a patent application. A recent U.S. district court decision illustrates the consistent position taken in the U.S.

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Opinion: Restoring The Road Less Traveled – American Invention at a Crossroad

IP Watchdog

As Robert Frost poetically noted, two roads diverged in the woods he was exploring. One road was well trod, easy to traverse, and the other less traveled, difficult and getting weedy.

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Fast-Track Patent Program for Humane ?Inventions

JD Supra Law

Senate passed a bill to codify the Fast-Track Patent Program for Humane Inventions. On November 29, 2022, the U.S. Both chambers of Congress have now voted to substantively codify H.R.