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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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. Setting aside issues of statutory interpretation, Abbott’s proposal (and hence the Thaler litigation) rests on two prongs, both deeply flawed.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The inventor of a novel jump rope system (the Revolution Rope), Molly Metz, argued in a reply brief to the U.S. Supreme Court filed on behalf of her company, Jump Rope Systems, LLC, on Tuesday that her case against Rogue Fitness is justiciable and the company has standing despite the cancellation of her patent claims by the U.S.

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IP Close Up

MAY 16, 2023

Inventors who are adept at identifying new and potentially disruptive products are increasingly sought after by leading technology players who may wish to dissuade or Continue reading

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Attorneys for deceased computer programmer Dave Kleiman on Monday hammered self-professed bitcoin inventor Craig Wright with documents in which he described Kleiman as his business partner despite his claims in multibillion-dollar litigation that the two were just friends.

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LexBlog IP

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. HIP, formerly Unitherm Food Systems, Inc. (“Unitherm”), argued that it had rights to the patent because its president was an inventor and should be added to the patent. Iolab Corp.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The Federal Circuit on Wednesday agreed with a New York federal judge's decision to throw out an inventor's infringement litigation against VeriFone Systems Inc. that replicates an earlier suit.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

On September 25, independent inventor Carolyn Hafeman filed a reply brief arguing that efforts by consumer tech giant LG Electronics to prejudice Hafeman’s legal claims in front of a Western Texas jury require the court to grant a new patent infringement trial in the case.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Videotron claimed they licensed to avoid litigation, and later realized that Rovi’s portfolio is obsolete. The deciding factors for awarding an ‘accounting for profits’ are as follows: Whether there has been undue delay in commencing or prosecuting the litigation. Videotron did not renew its license which expired in 2016.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia issued a decision granting a Motion for Summary Judgment for the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and upholding the Office’s view that AI algorithms cannot be listed as inventors on U.S.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 11, 2022

Mylan, relying on inventor testimony to invalidate patent claims for lack of written description, illustrates one of several ways in which such testimony can be used to persuade fact-finders in close cases and uncover game-changing evidence, says Jeremy Edwards at Maddox Edwards. The recent Federal Circuit decision in Biogen v.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be the inventor or co-inventor on a patent but can be used as a tool. That is the gist of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) recently released Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions. By: McGuireWoods LLP

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2023

Recovering money from users of technology requires movement on the part of inventors of technology. inventors) to send cease and desist letters, file complaints in federal district court, and at times endure patent litigation to its completion. All of these movements require the inventor to possess a patent.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 12, 2022

Neapco just a few days earlier, inventor David Tropp on July 5 again asked the Court to unravel U.S. Despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection of the petition in American Axle v. patent eligibility law. 101, as interpreted in Alice Corporation Pty v.

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IP Intelligence

AUGUST 9, 2022

Vidal ruled that an artificial intelligence (AI) system cannot be listed as a named inventor on a patent application, affirming the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and Eastern District of Virginia rulings. He filed two patent applications at the USPTO, listing DABUS as the sole named inventor on both applications.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 9, 2022

Vidal ruled that an artificial intelligence (AI) system cannot be listed as a named inventor on a patent application, affirming the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and Eastern District of Virginia rulings. He filed two patent applications at the USPTO, listing DABUS as the sole named inventor on both applications.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 21, 2024

As reported on IPWatchdog, the UK Supreme court recently ruled that a trained neural network (an Artificial Intelligence known as DABUS) could not be listed as the inventor on two patent applications filed by Dr. Stephen Thaler at the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO).

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IP Close Up

MARCH 21, 2023

When it comes to declining respect for intellectual property rights inventors and content creators, such as photographers, musicians and writers, as well as some trademark Continue reading

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 8, 2024

On January 5, 2024, in litigation between REGENXBIO and Sarepta Therapeutics, Judge Richard Andrews of the U.S. Sarepta argued that the claims of the ’617 Patent are directed to naturally occurring AAV sequences and the inventors’ contribution was only the identification of the naturally occurring sequences. § 101.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 22, 2024

A businesswoman behind a small printing company is the latest litigant to head to the U.S. Supreme Court with complaints about the Federal Circuit's practice of issuing one-sentence Rule 36 orders.

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Delaware Intellectual Property Litigation Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

In Thaler , the Court confronted, analyzed and answered the question of “can an artificial intelligence machine be an ‘inventor’ under the Patent Act?” In reaching its holding, the Court found that “Congress intended to limit the definition of ‘inventor’ to natural persons” which means humans – not artificial intelligence.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 15, 2023

A panel of Federal Circuit judges on Tuesday affirmed a finding in what it described as a decade's worth of "​​acrimonious litigation over mudflaps" that resulted in the inventor of a new type of mudflap winning $228,000 from a federal jury in Michigan without the assistance of any attorneys.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 13, 2022

In two related inter partes review proceedings, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board granted a petitioner’s motion to exclude the declaration of an inventor because the patent owner failed to make him available for cross-examination in the IPR.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 27, 2022

On January 21, inventor Martin David Hoyle and his company B.E. Technology filed a response in opposition to a consolidated motion to dismiss that was filed last November by defendants Michelle K. Lee, former Director of the U.S.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 9, 2022

The Court’s denial of opportunities to clarify this issue has caused American inventors to unreasonably weigh the risk of disclosing their inventions against the uncertainty of acquiring a patent. The purpose of the patent system is to provide economic incentive for inventors to disclose their knowledge to the public sphere.

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IP Close Up

JANUARY 13, 2022

Frederick Shelton IV, arguably the most prolific and financially successful inventors ever, is a Johnson & Johnson medical device innovator unknown to pretty much everyone Continue reading.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In this episode, IMS Senior Client Success Advisor Adam Bloomberg is joined by Professor Ian Cullimore, expert witness and patent inventor, and IMS Trial Consulting Lead Dan Martin to explain how to simplify sophisticated intellectual property into compelling presentations that judges, juries, and tribunals can comprehend.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In the decade since the America Invents Act (AIA) was enacted, patent licensing challenges have increased for many technology companies and independent inventors. IP business models will evolve, and risk and return calculations will become more reliable. grants for the first half of 2021.

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Self-professed bitcoin inventor Craig Wright was admonished by a Florida federal judge Tuesday for posting online about suing expert witnesses for fraud as a digital forensic expert was on the stand testifying that documents Wright produced in the multibillion-dollar litigation were not authentic.

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IP Law 360

APRIL 12, 2024

Groups representing inventors, startups and medical technology companies are putting pressure on U.S. senators to pass bills that would prospectively limit the ability of courts to throw out patent lawsuits, a month after tech industry groups argued the legislation would trigger an onslaught of patent litigation.

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

US Inventor has told the Fifth Circuit that U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap wrongly concluded the group lacked standing to challenge Patent Trial and Appeal Board precedent allowing the board to deny patent reviews when there is co-pending district court litigation.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 25, 2024

A patent litigation outfit that has been filing suits for more than a decade over "blade server" technology has landed nearly $18 million from a jury in Waco, Texas, against a Taiwanese computer manufacturer that tried to refute the technology's importance by relying on testimony from the inventor of the USB drive.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 17, 2022

Gilbert Hyatt, an inventor who has been granted more than 70 patents and has filed more than 400 applications with the U.S. Hyatt has been embroiled in litigation with the USPTO for decades and won a previous Supreme Court appeal in 2012. . Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), has petitioned the U.S.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 2, 2022

federal government to address patent quality, abusive litigation and forum shopping. Unfortunately, the proposed reforms would help very little, if at all, toward improving certainty and clarity in patent rights in a way that would actually improve American innovation by supporting small startups and individual inventors in our country.

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IP Close Up

JANUARY 6, 2022

In the latest episode of ‘Understanding IP Matters’, which dropped today on leading podcast platforms, award-winning inventor Dan Brown says that the patent winds have shifted and are blowing Continue reading.

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IP Law 360

JUNE 22, 2022

Vidal marks the first time that the Federal Circuit has substantively considered artificial intelligence, and while the court pushed back on arguments that an AI machine is entitled to patents, the broader context of this appeal can provide strategic guidance for future AI litigation, says Mark Davies at Orrick.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 9, 2022

Following certain adverse patent eligibility rulings in the District of Delaware, plaintiff voluntarily dismissed its Delaware litigation and rebooted the same litigation by filing new. Affirming district court decisions regarding award of attorneys’ fees pursuant to inherent equitable powers. By: WilmerHale

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