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USPTO Issues Inventorship Guidance For AI-Assisted Inventions

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of the order, the administration charged the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USTPO) with three directives: 1. 2] The guidance provides that AI-assisted inventions are not categorically unpatentable. 1] In section 5.2

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UPSTO Issues “Significant” Guidance on Patentability of AI-Assisted Inventions, but unlike USCO, Does Not Require Disclosure of AI Involvement

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The Guidance aims to clarify how patent applications involving AI-assisted inventions will be examined by patent examiners, and reaffirms the existing jurisprudence maintaining that only natural persons, not AI tools, can be listed as inventors. The USPTO is seeking public feedback on the Guidance, which is due by May 13, 2024.

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A judicial lens on controversial IP realities in India

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Registrar of Trademarks rather scathingly pointed out a glaring error in an order passed by the Senior Examiner of Trademarks. The Trademarks Office (TMO) was directed to restore the Appellant’s application and to dispose of the same in an expeditious manner. In April this year, the Delhi HC in Blackberry Ltd v.

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Fish & Richardson Principal Ahmed Davis Authors The National Law Journal Article, “Celebrating Black Inventors on World IP Day”

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For World IP Day, Fish Principal and chair of Fish’s Diversity & Inclusion Initiative , Ahmed Davis , authored the article “Celebrating Black Inventors on World IP Day” for the National Law Journal, which celebrates the contributions of Black inventors who all too often get overlooked.

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Federal Circuit Hears Case on Whether an AI-Generated Invention Is Patentable

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Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held oral argument on the issue of whether an invention generated by artificial intelligence (AI) is patentable. Thaler listed DABUS as the inventor on two patent applications, one for a light beacon and one for a beverage container, that he filed with the U.S. On June 6, the U.S. The Appeal.

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Commerce Department Announces NIST and USPTO Actions on AI

IP Watchdog

Now, the Department of Commerce (DOC) has announced several new actions aimed at implementing that order. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today published a request for comment (RFC) on “how AI could affect evaluations of how the level of ordinary skills in the arts are made to determine if an invention is patentable under U.S.

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Federal Circuit Hears Case on Whether an AI-Generated Invention Is Patentable

LexBlog IP

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held oral argument on the issue of whether an invention generated by artificial intelligence (AI) is patentable. Thaler listed DABUS as the inventor on two patent applications, one for a light beacon and one for a beverage container, that he filed with the U.S. On June 6, the U.S. The Appeal.