Invention Patent Application Public Use Technology 
Patently-O
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
by Dennis Crouch Bottom line in this new Minerva case — file your patent application before bringing a new product to a trade show. ” The invention was not yet “ready for patenting” and therefore its public use was not disqualifying. .” ” See, Delano Farms Co.
Trading Secrets
APRIL 18, 2023
In our AI-driven world, we might rephrase it as: If we share our secrets with an AI language model like ChatGPT, but the information remains unused, does it count as trade secret disclosure or public disclosure of an invention? Spoiler alert: sharing invention details with ChatGPT does not count as public use or on sale.
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LexBlog IP
APRIL 18, 2023
In our AI-driven world, we might rephrase it as: If we share our secrets with an AI language model like ChatGPT, but the information remains unused, does it count as trade secret disclosure or public disclosure of an invention? Spoiler alert: sharing invention details with ChatGPT does not count as public use or on sale.
LexBlog IP
OCTOBER 24, 2022
However, if the Contractor fails to report any inventions to the contracting officer within two months of preparing the corresponding patent applications, the Contractor risks losing ownership of those inventions. The nations in which the Contractor seeks to file the patent application. important;}}.
LexBlog IP
OCTOBER 3, 2022
The act also establishes the rights for businesses and nonprofits to patent and commercialize inventions developed within the scope of the funding agreement. In exchange for the funding agreement, contractors must disclose any invention conceived or reduced to practice under the funding agreement to the funding agency.
IP Tech Blog
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
the Supreme Court held that an inventor’s sale of an invention to a third party who is obligated to keep the invention confidential can create an on-sale bar under AIA §102(a). The issue at the heart of ALJ Cheney’s decision was whether the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act’s (AIA) amendments to the on-sale bar in 35 U.S.C.
LexBlog IP
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
the Supreme Court held that an inventor’s sale of an invention to a third party who is obligated to keep the invention confidential can create an on-sale bar under AIA §102(a). In its 2018 decision in Helsinn Healthcare S.A. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. , ” 35 U.S.C. § § 102(b) (pre-AIA).
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