Patently-O

APRIL 25, 2023

As artificial intelligence progresses at an unprecedented pace, numerous cases have emerged where generative AI has played a crucial role in conceiving an invention. This raises the question of whether it is appropriate to designate the human, who contributed to only a part of the invention and collaborated with the AI, as the sole inventor.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

On Monday, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued guidance on the patentability of inventions developed with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI). By: Goodwin

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 5, 2024

The Guidance, for USPTO examiners and applicants, addresses inventorship and the use of AI, including generative AI, in the inventive process. The Guidance provides illustrative examples in which AI systems play different roles in the inventive process, to show how the USPTO will analyze inventorship issues. an AI] prompt.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 23, 2021

There’s hardly any area in entrepreneurship today that deals with innovation more than intellectual property rights protection – in fact, cutting edge technology and inventions are at the core of the IP industry.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 10, 2024

As the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in developing new inventions and technologies becomes more prevalent, courts around the world are increasingly addressing whether new inventions developed by AI are eligible for patent protection.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 28, 2024

That the invention was an important real-world manufacturing innovation was, as a factual matter, thoroughly established. That is, every objective indicium of inventiveness that this Court has identified was present in the technological, traditionally patent-eligible, setting of manufacturing lines.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 10, 2023

As AI technologies continue to evolve, the question of intellectual property protection becomes increasingly significant. 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.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The USPTO released inventorship guidance on February 12, 2024, for inventions assisted by artificial intelligence (AI). 2022), and this release provides guidance regarding the open question of human inventorship for inventions developed by a person working with the assistance of an AI system. Vidal , 43 F.4th 4th 1207 (Fed.

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Patently-O

MARCH 26, 2024

The Supreme Court ultimately reversed the lower court’s decision upholding the patent and found instead that Brady’s claimed invention lacked novelty and did not constitute a patentable advance over the prior art. Such an indiscriminate creation of exclusive privileges tends rather to obstruct than to stimulate invention.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 5, 2024

Under certain circumstances, federal agencies have statutory authority to force inventors of patented technology developed with federal funding to grant licenses allowing others to practice the invention. This authority is known as “march-in.”

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

’ While the Full Court found the representative claim at issue to be unpatentable, it did not entirely foreclose the possibility that there may be patent-eligible aspects to the inventions disclosed in Aristocrat’s four innovation patents.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) conducted a live meeting for its Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Emerging Technologies (ET) Partnership Series. Telling a detailed story explaining the novelty of the invention instead of merely providing a high level description. On September 22, 2022, the U.S.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Guest post by Alice Li , Cornell University, Executive Director of the Center for Technology Licensing, AUTM Board Member. Myriad inventions in history have been created based on the foundational research done by universities and academic institutions worldwide. AUTM’s efforts to promote EDI in the profession continue.

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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. With the advances in AI technologies, AI systems create drugs, treatments, designs, and more. That may have been done by the AI system, which raises the question as to who is the inventor of the invention created by that system. Stephen L.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Typically, biologics are produced from living cells with the exception of emerging technologies such as the mRNA platform. Since living cells and products of nature are often involved in these inventions, clarity regarding patent eligibility is becoming more important. Kappos, Mayo Collaborative Services v. Kibow Biotech Inc.,

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IPilogue

MARCH 29, 2022

The 5 th Annual IP Data & Research Conference , organized by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (“CIPO”) and the Centre for International Governance Innovation (“CIGI”), included a session on “Clean Technologies” about the status of Canada’s IP ownership and cleantech sector. Clean Technologies’ Economic Impact and Innovation.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In Mexico, disputes involving technological assets tend mainly to concern the unauthorised manufacture, use and sale of software and inventions. Unfortunately, Mexico is a country that faces a serious piracy problem, of both national and foreign origin (mainly Chinese). By: Hogan Lovells

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JD Supra Law

JULY 28, 2023

Patent and Trademark Office to reject patent applications directed to biotechnology-related inventions, held (In re Brana) that utility of such inventions did not require demonstration of therapeutic effectiveness, those determinations being the purview of the FDA.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming a major force in the world of technology, with its ability to create new content and even replicate the styles of individual humans, including as a tool used by inventors in the creation of patent-eligible technology. By: Venable LLP

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WIPO Magazine

JUNE 18, 2022

NASA’s well-established technology transfer program is reaching out to support startup companies and a greater range of entrepreneurs, enabling space-age inventions to transform products from bicycles to medical devices.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 24, 2022

For most of the past decade, the Supreme Court has been marking out the metes and bounds of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's execution of the post-grant review provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, particularly with regard to inter partes reviews (see "Oil States Energy Services, LLC. Lee (2016)"; and "Teva.

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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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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

APRIL 12, 2023

” In its briefing, the SG ties itself to the idea of “technological inventions”; arguing that “quintessentially technological inventions” should be patent eligible. Importantly, Tropp does not claim to have created any new technology here, but rather a new process. See 35 U.S.C.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 4, 2022

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board issued a decision on February 28 awarding priority of invention of foundational CRISPR gene editing patents to the Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 24, 2023

The patent statute requires that, to be patentable, the subject matter of an invention must be at least one of a process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter. It is hard to find examples of things that do not fall into these broad categories, though signals in motion and data at rest are two.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) conducted a live meeting for its Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Emerging Technologies (ET) Partnership Series. Telling a detailed story explaining the novelty of the invention instead of merely providing a high level description. On September 22, 2022, the U.S.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

As part of the America Invents Act (“AIA”), Congress moved the patent system from a first-to-invent to a first-inventor-to-file system. post-AIA) patents owned by SNIPR and a first-to-invent (i.e., post-AIA) patents owned by SNIPR and a first-to-invent (i.e., pre-AIA) patent application owned by Rockefeller.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Chau & Associates discusses the risks of oversimplifying claimed inventions in AI and machine learning, especially in dynamic technological areas where popular narratives can overshadow real-world experience in shaping the legal framework. Xin Shao at F.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 26, 2023

In a judgement passed on May 15, the Delhi High Court despite noting the lack of clarity on the concepts of “technical effect” and “contribution” in the context of the patentability of Computer Related Inventions, declared that the subject invention had technical effects.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 7, 2021

Further, the USPTO has issued thousands of inventions that utilize AI. The number of artificial intelligence (AI) patent applications received annually by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) grew from 30,000 in 2002 to more than 60,000 in 2018.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 8, 2022

From the invention of the player piano to the creation of the smartphone, copyright and technology have played a seemingly endless game of capture-the-flag. The upcoming Copyright and Technology Conference in New York on Tuesday, September 13th, plants both those flags firmly at Fordham University School of Law.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 7, 2022

AI finds application in virtually every technology and business paradigm. If you haven’t seen it already, AI is coming soon to an invention near you and can be found in a greatly increasing number of patent applications and patent claims. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere and it’s evolving.

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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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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 5, 2021

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.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

by Dennis Crouch Berkely Center for Law & Technology is hosting a great half-day virtual-conference this week: “AI as an Inventing Tool – it’s Implications for Patent Law” organized by Prof. Rob Merge s, Dr. Yuan Hao (PhD), and Prof. Colleen Chien.

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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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