Intellectual Property Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

In the following sections, we will discuss an illustrative list of subject areas that may offer patentable AI inventions. (1) However, inventors often need to improve various aspects of an existing AI system to make it fit and work for their applications. 1) Training phase.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 14, 2023

Patentability of AI-assisted Inventions- DBL’s Managing Partner Tom Dunlap recently wrote an interesting article about the current state of artificial intelligence (AI) inventorship. Mr. Dunlap detailed the patenting efforts surrounding DABUS, an AI system developed by Dr. Stephen Thaler that autonomously created certain inventions.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 10, 2023

Patents play a crucial role in safeguarding AI inventions and encouraging innovation in this rapidly advancing field. It is key to know that AI inventions have been examined and issued as U.S. As AI technologies continue to evolve, the question of intellectual property protection becomes increasingly significant. By: Locke Lord LLP

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Titled the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA), the legislation would overturn Supreme Court and Federal Circuit decisions that scrambled settled law, excluding many worthy classes of inventions, such as medical diagnostic methods and advanced computer applications.

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Intepat

APRIL 2, 2022

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. Patents are valuable assets that enable one to share their invention in public without any fear of being misused.

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IP.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Invention disclosure documents are the important first steps in the IP commercialization process. Not only does it represent the first recording of the invention, establishing the date and scope, but they have been used to defeat challenges to dates of invention, inventorship, invention scope, and prior art.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

2023 FCA 168], a 3-0 decision, recently set aside the test on subject matter eligibility of computer-implemented inventions laid down by the Federal Court [2022 FC 923] last year. Benjamin Moore & Co.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Effective immediately, Governor Hochul has signed a law invalidating any provision in an employment agreement that requires employees to assign to the employer any rights to an invention developed entirely on the employee's own time without using the employer's equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secrets. By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Innovators seeking patent protection for entertainment software inventions should be aware that all software inventions face patent-eligibility issues. Nevertheless, patent practitioners who are experienced in the art of software patent prosecution can help ensure that software inventions get maximum protection. By: Lewis Roca

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The IPKat

MARCH 24, 2023

In order to understand whether a purported technical effect may be relied on for inventive step, the EBA concludes that the substantive question remains what would the skilled person understand from the application as filed? For the EBA, the substantive question at the heart of G 2/21 is a familiar one that needs no reference to plausibility.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

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. By: Linda Liu & Partners

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 29, 2023

If signed into law by Governor Hochul, the legislation would, effective immediately, add to New York labor law a new section 203-f that renders unenforceable provisions in employee agreements that require employees to assign certain inventions developed using the employee’s own property and time. Under S5640, as is the case with Cal.

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IP.com

JULY 14, 2021

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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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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. up to over 3.

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Larson & Larson

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Filing an application with claims to more than one invention will result in a restriction from the patent examiner. One of the key themes that arises from the restriction requirement is the concept of unity of invention. Patent laws mandate that an invention needs to be clear, distinct, and unified to warrant patent protection.

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Olartemoure Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Today, we share with you some of different all-Thanksgiving-related inventions and trademarks. La entrada Infographic | All-thanksgiving inventions and trademarks se publicó primero en OlarteMoure | Intellectual Property. For Turkey. For Turkey. Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade®: Finally, one of the most iconic events on this holiday.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 5, 2022

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. ” Slip Op.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 25, 2023

While many speakers cautioned against moving too quickly to change the rules for AI-generated inventions, others warned that doing nothing could result in chaos for the USPTO and grave economic and innovation losses for the country.

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Patently-O

JULY 13, 2023

by Dennis Crouch If you break it down far enough, every invention is simply a combination of known materials or steps. In Axonics, the court ruled that the obviousness analysis must focus on the motivation to combine references to reach the claimed invention, not motivation to combine for some other purpose described in the prior art.

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Patently-O

APRIL 13, 2022

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. Noam Shemtov and Garry Gabison, The Inventive Step Requirement and the Rise of the AI Machines.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

Background In 2015, Ironburg Inventions Ltd. . § 315(e)(2); and (2) the “skilled and diligent searcher” inquiry itself with respect to what a skilled and diligent searcher reasonably would have been expected to discover. Ironburg”) sued Valve Corporation (“Valve”) for infringing U.S. 8,641,525 (“the ’525 patent”).

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Patently-O

MAY 25, 2023

These patents, US Patents 8,048,032, RE45,380, RE45,776, RE45,760, and RE47,379, cover inventions devised to offer an “enhanced backup support” in contrast to using a guide catheter individually. It’s important to understand that the process of invention involves two steps – conception and reduction to practice.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 11, 2022

Arguably, an AI system, which is a non-human, can also create or invent. While these systems may have been programmed and/or trained by a human, the human may not have actually invented the apparatus or method claimed in the patent application. But can an AI system be a named inventor on a patent? Stephen L.

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IP.com

APRIL 5, 2022

The post The Truth About Invention Disclosures appeared first on IP.com - IP Innovation and Analytics. How the right editing services can set you on the path to protect that IP. When you open your GPS to get directions, you must know your destination before.

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Intepat

APRIL 19, 2023

INTRODUCTION As technology continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace, Computer-Related Inventions (CRIs) have become a crucial component of modern innovation. The Patents Act, 1970, provides for the protection of CRIs, but there has been significant debate over the years regarding the patentability of such inventions in India.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

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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JD Supra Law

MARCH 6, 2023

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. By: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 11, 2023

PatKat has been sceptical about Dr Thaler and his purported inventing machine, DABUS, for some time ( IPKat ). In the pending European DABUS case ( EP4067251 ), DABUS's invention as originally claimed was found to lack novelty in view of 25 year old prior art. Sceptical Kat Has DABUS invented?

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 28, 2023

However, in a recent case, the Federal Circuit found that a “machine learning” claim element lacked sufficient enablement because both the claim itself and the written description of the patent to which it belonged failed to describe “ how ” the claimed invention implemented this element. In re Starrett , 2023 U.S.P.Q.2d

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 28, 2023

This week in Washington IP news, as a new school year begins, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) looks at the latest research on invention education. federal government can do to patent rights during a public health emergency.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 30, 2023

If so, the court proceeds to step two, where it considers whether the claims contain an “inventive concept” sufficient to transform the abstract idea into a patent-eligible application. At Alice step two, the court agreed that the claims lack an inventive concept to transform the abstract idea into a patent-eligible application.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 12, 2022

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? The Federal Circuit recently addressed this issue in Thaler v. By: Weintraub Tobin

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

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

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The much discussed, but previously unreleased, Restoring America Invents Act has finally been made public. The bill was submitted by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) in what he described late last week as an attempt to reverse the reforms of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) made by former USPTO Director Andrei Iancu.

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Intepat

JANUARY 17, 2023

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. It provides an opportunity for the applicant to provide information regarding the invention in order to be entitled to claim protection. Provisional Specification.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

As she describes herself, in her free time, she enjoys playing amateur-level chess and finding spelling errors in Non-Disclosure Agreements.

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The IPKat

JULY 31, 2023

A question that confuses discussions on sufficiency is whether certain sufficiency tests are applicable to only certain types of invention. However, according to the established case law of the EPO, the underlying test for sufficiency is consistent, regardless of the type of invention.

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