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UMKC School of Law Wins National Patent Application Drafting Competition

Patently-O

Patent and Trademark Office announced the winner of this year’s National Patent Application Drafting Competition (NPADC), the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. I would encourage any law student interested in pursuing a career in patent prosecution to consider participating in the competition next year.

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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. Nevertheless, patent practitioners who are experienced in the art of software patent prosecution can help ensure that software inventions get maximum protection.

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The Times They Are a-Changin’? A Look at the Revised Patent Prosecution Timelines in the Draft Patent Amendment Rules

SpicyIP

Image from here On August 23, the Draft Patent (Amendment) Rules, 2023 , were published in the Gazette of India, inviting public comments by September 22. Since then, the Rules have been extensively discussed within the IP community, especially the potential impact they may have on the patent opposition mechanism.

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Bad cases make bad law: Has DABUS "the AI inventor" actually invented anything?

The IPKat

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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[Guest post]: The proportionality test in European patent law

The IPKat

Injunctions are all the rage in contemporary patent law. This week marks the publication of a book by the IPKat’s Dutch friend and former GuestKat Léon Dijkman on the hotly contested notion of the proportionality test in European patent law, accessible for free here. Oh, how times have changed.

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A Creeper: Absorbing Generative AI into the Inventive Process

IP Watchdog

Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) recent Request for Comments (RFC) on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) highlights a critical juncture in intellectual property law—evaluating the impact of generative AI (GenAI) on the non-obviousness standard.

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Patent Continuation Strategies Face Major Threat

Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch Impact of Sonos on Patent Prosecution : The recent Sonos v. Google decision threatens to grind to a halt, or at least significantly restrict, a once-common patent prosecution strategy – keeping continuation applications pending for years to obtain new claims that cover marketplace developments.

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