IP Watchdog
MARCH 23, 2023
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) sent out an email alert on March 16, 2023 about its transition to eGrants for patents.
IP Watchdog
AUGUST 5, 2022
Vidal that an artificial intelligence (AI) machine does not qualify as an inventor under the Patent Act. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) ruled today in Thaler v.
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Patently-O
JULY 22, 2022
” UDP Labs quickly filed a provisional patent application for Young and Hewitt’s new inventions. More patent applications filed rather quickly, all claiming priority back to that original application filed during the consulting agreement period. ” Patent
IP Watchdog
AUGUST 7, 2021
With South Africa’s patent office having recently granted the first patent to an AI inventor, and an Australian court ruling in favor of AI inventorship, it’s time to review how we got here—and where we’re going.
IP Watchdog
MARCH 20, 2023
Recently, the technology has even been used in the realm of intellectual property, with some having used it to draft patent applications.
IP Watchdog
MARCH 24, 2022
Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) Patent Pro Bono Program (PPBP) were African American or Black and 41% were female, according to the latest USPTO Director’s Blog. of all inventors named on U.S. Thirty percent of respondents to a survey of applicants using the U.S.
IP Watchdog
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Last October, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a Request for Comments on USPTO Initiatives To Ensure the Robustness and Reliability of Patent Rights. We need patents that are respected when they are issued.
IP Watchdog
MARCH 16, 2023
Whether or not the law recognizes a machine as the inventor-at-law, the facts are indispensable to determination of the true inventor-in-fact. These overlooked facts may reveal the true inventor, regardless of whether or not the type of inventor is recognized by the current law.
IP Watchdog
APRIL 17, 2022
On April 13, 2022, the Federal Court of Australia, on appeal, reversed its 2021 decision that DABUS, an artificial intelligence (AI) machine, qualified as an inventor for a patent application under Australian law. Each application names DABUS as the sole inventor.
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. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), has petitioned the U.S.
IP Watchdog
AUGUST 8, 2022
The August 2019 announcement that two patent applications had been filed naming an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm as an inventor in the United States and a dozen other countries was regarded as disruptive and profound at the time.
IP Watchdog
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced on Tuesday that it is once again extending the deadline for submissions on its “Request for Comments on USPTO Initiatives to Ensure the Robustness and Reliability of Patent Rights.” The U.S.
IP Watchdog
JULY 29, 2021
South Africa’s patent office has granted the first patent for an invention conceived by an artificial intelligence (AI) inventor, DABUS. The notice of issuance was published in the July 2021 Patent Journal. .
IP Watchdog
AUGUST 26, 2021
Yet the debate still rages over when a software (or computer-implemented) claim is patentable versus being simply an abstract idea “free to all men and reserved exclusively to none” (as eloquently phrased over 73 years ago by then-Supreme Court Justice Douglas in Funk Bros.
IP Watchdog
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Case law has defined prosecution laches as an affirmative defense against an infringement assertion. Specifically, the case law indicates a patent that is being asserted is unenforceable when the patentee caused an unreasonable and unexplained delay in prosecution of the patent.
IP Watchdog
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
s subscribers’ most searched patent petition type is for retroactive foreign filing licenses (RFFLs). Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for a RFFL eventually are granted.
IP Watchdog
JULY 25, 2021
As such, AI has been shown to have near endless applications, driving a surge of inventions and related patent application filings. Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere, touching nearly every aspect of our daily lives, including how we work, communicate, shop, travel and more.
Patently-O
JULY 28, 2021
Most patents involve two or more joint inventors who all claim to have contributed significantly to the invention. The MPEP, for example, includes a statement in all-caps that “CONCEPTION MUST BE DONE IN THE MIND OF THE INVENTOR.” Patentby Dennis Crouch.
IP Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 12, 2021
Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), discussing the issue of inconsistent statements made by patent applicants pursuant to their disclosure requirements at the USPTO and other federal agencies, especially the U.S.
IP Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
According to Strategic Goal 1 of the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) FY2020 Performance and Accountability Report (PAR), the USPTO is committed to high-quality patent examination in a timely manner.
Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts
JUNE 14, 2022
Moritz Ammelburg and Peter Fasse examine the patentability requirements and prosecution schemes in the US and Europe and how applicants can prepare applications that will best serve their needs in both jurisdictions. Inventorship in the US is a critical component of patent ownership.
IP Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
The England and Wales Court of Appeal has upheld lower rulings that two patent applications designating an artificial intelligence called DABUS as the inventor were deemed to be withdrawn. Thaler v Comptroller General of Patents Trade Marks And Designs [2021] EWCA Civ 1374.)
Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts
JUNE 14, 2022
Moritz Ammelburg and Peter Fasse examine the patentability requirements and prosecution schemes in the US and Europe and how applicants can prepare applications that will best serve their needs in both jurisdictions. Inventorship in the US is a critical component of patent ownership.
IP Watchdog
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) hosted a webinar regarding the agency’s recent request for comments (RFC) on initiatives that the USPTO is exploring to enhance the robustness and reliability of patent rights issued by the agency. patent filings. On November 4, the U.S.
IP Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Technologies such as computer networking, which, unlike software inventions, typically incorporate at least some hardware elements, may be less vulnerable to rejection under the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Alice v. CLS Bank.
IP Law 360
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
An inventor who claims lawyers with Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP mishandled a patent prosecution about a decade ago is asking a Texas appellate court to review rulings by a Harris County trial judge that let the firm off the hook
IP Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Inventor Gilbert Hyatt, who has been embroiled in litigation with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for decades, lost his latest case at the U.S. Patent Application No. patent term to 20 years from the effective filing date, took effect on June 8, 1995.
IP Watchdog
AUGUST 5, 2021
During the Patent Public Advisory Committee (PPAC) quarterly meeting held today, participants provided an update on the Director Review process under the Supreme Court’s Arthrex v.
LexBlog IP
MAY 9, 2022
In many cases, it may be desirable to file a new patent application that both relies on information disclosed in a previous patent application and includes new information that builds on the previous disclosure. But, is it necessary to include the previous inventors as well?
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. Unclear rules discourage inventors from disclosing their inventions.
LexBlog IP
MARCH 18, 2022
On February 28, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“ PTAB ”) issued a decision on priority in an interference proceeding between the Broad Institute, Inc. Patent No. Patent Application No. The inventors listed on Broad’s patent are Feng Zhang, Ph.D.,
IPilogue
JANUARY 14, 2022
This article summarizes the top developments reported on our blog and in patents, trademarks, and copyright law in 2021. Patents and the Magical World of Psychedelics by Bonnie Hassanzadeh. Introducing the College of Patent Agents & Trademark Agents. Patents.
IP Law 360
MARCH 14, 2022
Shaikh, the head of McDermott Will & Emery LLP's patent prosecution practice, works closely with tech companies and a patent group to develop inventors and patent agents from underrepresented groups, efforts he hopes will increase the number of patents granted to diverse inventors Ahsan A.
IPilogue
MARCH 21, 2023
The IP Innovation Clinic, the first student-based clinic of its kind in Canada, is seeking law students from Osgoode Hall Law School to provide assistance to under-resourced inventors, entrepreneurs and start-up companies with their innovation and commercialization activities.
IPilogue
MARCH 23, 2022
The IP Innovation Clinic, the first student-based clinic of its kind in Canada, is seeking law students from Osgoode Hall Law School to provide assistance to under-resourced inventors, entrepreneurs and start-up companies with their innovation and commercialization activities.
SpicyIP
MARCH 16, 2023
Image from here [This post is co-authored with Swaraj Paul Barooah] Various authors on this blog have repeatedly pointed out the lack of proper reasoning in patent orders, both from courts (see here ) as well as from the patent offices (see here ).
IPilogue
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
According to a recent study published in UNSW Law Journal , feminized names are less likely to be granted a patent in Australia. The study investigated female patenting rates in Australia over a period of 15 years.
IPilogue
AUGUST 25, 2022
The IP Innovation Clinic, the first student-based clinic of its kind in Canada, is seeking law students from Osgoode Hall Law School to assist under-resourced inventors, entrepreneurs and start-up companies with their innovation and commercialization activities.
Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Information and statements” may include, among other items, information that “refutes, or is inconsistent with, a position that the applicant takes in” either “opposing an argument of unpatentability relied on by the Office” or “asserting an argument of patentability.”.
Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts
MAY 27, 2021
Fish & Richardson is proud to announce that six of its attorneys were named recipients of the Pro Bono Achievement Certificate by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Yao Wang – California Inventors Assistance Program. Jacqueline Tio – Georgia PATENTS.
LexBlog IP
JUNE 23, 2022
The Patent Reexamination and Invalidation Department (PRID) of the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) invalidated the CN Invention Patent No. In addition, the article was cited by the patentee for related projects after the ’987 patent was granted.
IPilogue
AUGUST 18, 2021
The IP Innovation Clinic, the first student-based clinic of its kind in Canada, is seeking law students from Osgoode Hall Law School to provide assistance to under-resourced inventors, entrepreneurs and start-up companies with their innovation and commercialization activities.
IP Tech Blog
JUNE 18, 2021
To mitigate potential conflicts of interest and to improve the public’s understanding of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) procedures, the agency has recently made various amendments to its rules relating to the conduct of registered patent attorneys and agents.
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