IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The 2022 class of inductees into the National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF), announced earlier this week, includes the inventors of the foundational technology for messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA)-based vaccines, the Super Soaker, and Laserphaco cataract surgery. Twenty-two of these inventors were announced in 2020.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 14, 2022

Earlier this month, IP diversity advocacy group Invent Together announced that it had launched an online learning platform known as The Inventor’s Patent Academy (TIPA), an e-learning course designed in collaboration with Qualcomm to educate inventors from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds about the benefits of engaging with the U.S.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Bill #303/2024 proposes the addition of a paragraph to Article 6 of the IP Statute, which regulates ownership of inventions, with the following wording: “in the case of inventions autonomously generated by artificial intelligence system, the patent can be requested in the name of the artificial intelligence system that has created the invention, being (..)

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The IPKat

JULY 30, 2024

The natural person can then be named an inventor on the patent application. Of more practical consequence, the legal test provided in the Guidance for determining whether the inventors of a particular AI system should also be considered inventors of its output, remains open to interpretation.

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IP Law 360

DECEMBER 19, 2023

s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that an artificial intelligence cannot be the named inventor of a patent under current legislation, concluding that British law requires a "natural person" to be behind an invention.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 24, 2023

Vidal, which asked the Court to consider the question: “Does the Patent Act categorically restrict the statutory term ‘inventor’ to human beings alone?” Dr. Stephen Thaler lost his case at the U.S.

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Patently-O

JULY 28, 2021

Most patents involve two or more joint inventors who all claim to have contributed significantly to the invention. Conception of the invention is typically seen as the critical legal determinant of invention and some courts have written that each joint inventor must have contributed substantially to the conception of the invention.*

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The IP Law Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Well, it turns out that not all contributions count when it comes to being an inventor of a patent for a better method of precooking bacon. Unitherm”), argued that it had rights to the patent because its president was an inventor and should be added to the patent. Also, Howard was not named as an inventor. The court in Pannu v.

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IP Law 360

APRIL 11, 2024

An artificial intelligence inventor has bashed the U.S. Copyright Office's arguments that art created by his AI system is not copyrightable because the machine is not human, telling the D.C. Circuit that the government cannot overcome the fact that the work exists, it's original and it qualifies for registration, regardless of its origin.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 16, 2024

Naming a person who is not a proper inventor on your non-provisional patent application can be a costly, time-consuming error to fix, and if not fixed ultimately results in an invalid patent. Typically, time and money are two things that are in short supply for an independent inventor, or a small business.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 10, 2023

On Tuesday, the European Patent Office (EPO) announced the 12 inventors and inventor teams that have been selected as finalists for the 2023 European Inventor Award. An independent jury of former European Inventor Award finalists used their expertise to select this year’s finalists.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 5, 2022

Vidal that an artificial intelligence (AI) machine does not qualify as an inventor under the Patent Act. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) ruled today in Thaler v. The decision is the latest in a series of rulings around the world considering the topic, most of which have found similarly. Judge Stark authored the opinion.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 9, 2022

Summary: Under the Patent Act , an “inventor” must be a natural person. Therefore, an AI system cannot be an inventor. Thaler filed two patent applications with the PTO listing DABUS, an AI system, as the sole inventor. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. By: Knobbe Martens

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Vidal , a Federal Court of Appeals case that determined whether AI can be listed as an inventor on a patent application. In this case, Dr. Stephen Thaler created an AI program that he listed as the only inventor on two US patent applications. The USPTO rejected these applications for lack of a proper inventor. prior art).

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IP Law 360

MAY 30, 2024

A California federal judge has said Netflix couldn't prove a Finnish inventor violated an injunction tied to his concealment of certain legal funds, or that a litigation fund manager the inventor worked with needs to face claims tied to that concealment.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2023

Within the next few years, the city of Newark, NJ, will be the home of a museum properly paying homage to the historic contributions that these inventors have made to medical science, telecommunications, transportation and more. Some of the earliest chapters in the story of U.S.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The latest decision from the United States, Thaler v Hirshfeld , comes off the heels of recent judgements in South Africa and Australia asking if AI can be considered the inventor in patent law. While South Africa and Australia answered in the affirmative, finding that AI passes the inventor test, the U.S.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 18, 2024

became the fourth jurisdiction to reach a final determination that a generative AI platform could not be named as an inventor on a patent. Supreme Court relied on statutory language to hold that “an inventor within the meaning of the 1977 [U.K. In December, the United Kingdom (the “U.K.”)

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Vidal, a Federal Court of Appeals case that determined whether AI can be listed as an inventor on a patent. Court precedent and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) guidelines have taken the place of written law to guide the USPTO in matters relating to AI. A notable example of this is Thaler v. By: Dickinson Wright

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IP Law 360

JUNE 28, 2024

A trade group that represents inventors is throwing its hat into the ring to support the latest petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on patent eligibility.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 21, 2024

On May 16, 2024, the Tokyo District Court (the “Court”) found that an artificial intelligence (“AI”) that autonomously generated an invention cannot be recognized as the inventor of that invention. The Court also expressed its hope that the legal issues addressed in the case would be settled through future legislation. By: Hogan Lovells

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U.S. Department of Commerce

MARCH 22, 2022

Women’s History Month: USPTO Highlights Trailblazing Women Inventors. In honor of Women’s History Month, and as part of its efforts to protect and promote the ingenuity of American inventors and entrepreneurs, the Department of Commerce’s U.S. She will be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) this year.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 10, 2023

The Request for Comments (RFC) allowed the public to voice their opinion on the proposed rules, including hundreds of real, authentic inventors. In the past, US Inventor has asked its members to use their voices and write comments for the USPTO's requests. Typically, these requests generate at least 100 responses from USI's members.

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IP Close Up

MAY 29, 2024

Seven of the top 10 most prolific inventors for 2023 are women according to grants issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and conveyed Continue reading

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 11, 2022

But can an AI system be a named inventor on a patent? 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. Alternatively, if the Patent Act requires inventor(s) must be human, are AI-created inventions not patentable at all under the current statute?

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IP Law 360

MAY 22, 2024

Patent and Trademark Office’s recently proposed rule on terminal disclaimers will make the patent system less available to inventors and will unfairly favor defendants in litigation, say Stephen Schreiner at Carmichael IP and Sarah Tsou at Omni Bridgeway.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 19, 2022

Our previous blog posts, Artificial Intelligence as the Inventor of Life Sciences Patents? and Update on Artificial Intelligence: Court Rules that AI Cannot Qualify As “Inventor,” discuss recent inventorship issues surrounding AI and its implications for life sciences innovations. By: Proskauer - Life Sciences

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Patently-O

MARCH 9, 2022

For each art-unit grouping, I show the percent of patents having US inventors (residence). The chart below provides a contrasting glimpse into the subject matter of US-originated patents compared with their foreign-originated counterparts.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

While the Court suggested that questions such as whether inventions like DABUS’ should be patentable and if the meaning of the term “inventor” should be expanded are important ones that should be considered at a policy level, the present case was concerned solely with the interpretation of the present law, which clearly does not contemplate non-human (..)

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Under patent law, it is the general expectation that inventors are humans, not robots. Dr. Stephen Thaler created DABUS (‘Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience’), an artificial neural system, and claimed that DABUS was the sole inventor of the patentable invention. Why is this an issue? v Wellcome Foundation Ltd.

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Intepat

JANUARY 15, 2024

Registration at UKIPO The case in question, originating in 2019, presents a groundbreaking legal dilemma: Can an artificial intelligence (AI) system be acknowledged as an inventor for the purposes of patent ownership? Uniquely, he declared that he was not the inventor; instead, he attributed the creations to his AI system named DABUS.

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U.S. Department of Commerce

AUGUST 14, 2024

This free event provides resources and access to independent inventors, entrepreneurs, and small business owners whose success depends on guarding their creative work. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will host Invention-Con 2024: Expanding your intellectual property potential.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 5, 2022

The Federal Circuit on Friday rejected a researcher's bid to name an artificial intelligence machine he created as an inventor on two patents, ruling that the Patent Act is unambiguous that only human beings qualify as inventors.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 13, 2021

One question that has recently been in the headlines around the world, thanks to the Artificial Inventor Project, is whether or not an AI system can be regarded as an inventor.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 4, 2021

On September 2, 2021, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia granted the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) motion for summary judgement, finding that an artificial intelligence (AI) system cannot be named as an inventor on a patent. By: Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

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IP Law 360

DECEMBER 6, 2023

An inventor is accusing Major League Baseball of infringing his 2015 patent for a digital ticketing system, which he says the league and its teams have used at ballparks without permission.

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Patently-O

MARCH 11, 2022

Thaler filed for patent protection, but refused to name himself as the inventor — although he created DABUS, these particular inventions did not originate in his mind. The USPTO rejected the applications — explaining US patents must name a human inventor. Now the case is pending before the Federal Circuit. Thaler Brief.

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