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Thaler v. Vidal: Will Patentability be Negated by the Manner of Invention?

Patently-O

DABUS apparently created two inventions–a “neural flame” and a “fractal container.” Rather, he says that it was DABUS who did the inventing. But, the PTO refused to issue the patent without a human listed inventor. ” Abbott and Barghaan litigated the case below as well.

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The relevance of G 2/21 to machine learning inventions (T 2803/18)

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The Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) decision in G 2/21 related to the evidence requirement for a purported technical effect relied on for inventive step. The Board of Appeal in T 2803/18 , in particular, highlights how G 2/21 may be relevant to inventions in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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Overview of the S. 3 landscape on patenting biotechnology inventions in India

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Since living cells and products of nature are often involved in these inventions, clarity regarding patent eligibility is becoming more important. The discovery, development and patenting of biologics has been historically tied to the ‘product of nature’ question under patent law. 3(e), in La Renon Health Care Pvt.

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Supreme Court on Patent Law: November 2023

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by Dennis Crouch The Supreme Court is set to consider several significant patent law petitions addressing a range of issues from the application of obviousness standards, challenges to PTAB procedures, interpretation of joinder time limits IPR, to the proper scope patent eligibility doctrine. Mangrove Partners Master Fund (No.

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Supreme Court on Patent Law for October 2022

Patently-O

According to the Federal Circuit, US patent law contains separate and distinct written description and enablement requirements. The idea here is that the patentee did enough to enable someone to make and use the invention–isn’t that enough? Wade was good law before being overturned by the Court last term.

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Book Review: A Practitioner’s Guide to European Patent Law (with a discount code)

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This Kat is delighted to review “ A Practitioner’s Guide to European Patent Law: For National Practice and the Unified Patent Court ” (Hart Publishing, 2022, 664 pp.). The book consists of seventeen chapters, mainly on substantive law, but it also addresses certain procedural matters and questions of international private law.

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Australian Judge Rules Inventions Developed by Artificial Intelligence Can Qualify for Patent Protection

The IP Law Blog

Commissioner of Patents , case number VID 108 of 2021, in the Federal Court of Australia, an Australian Federal Judge became the first known jurist to rule that inventions developed by artificial intelligence can qualify for patent protection. In Thaler v. And, nothing in the Act dictates the contrary conclusion.