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AI Can’t Hold Patents Because They Require an “Inventor” to Be a “Natural Person”

JD Supra Law

5, 2022), that an artificial intelligence (AI) system cannot be listed as a named inventor on a patent application, affirming earlier rulings from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the lower court in the Eastern District of Virginia. By: Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

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Innovating the Term ‘Inventor’: AI and Patent Law

IPilogue

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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This Week in Washington IP: Celebrating Black Invention with Invent Together, USPTO Begins Symposium Series on Women’s Entrepreneurship, and House Committee Holds Hearing on U.S. Innovation

IP Watchdog

This week in Washington IP news, the House Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, And Commerce holds a hearing on promoting innovation and protecting data privacy, and the Senate Judiciary Committee holds a meeting about a handful of judicial appointments.

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Patent Protection on AI Inventions

Intellectual Property Law Blog

Inventors and patent attorneys often face the challenge of effectively protecting new AI technology development. The rule of thumb is to focus the patent protection on what the inventors improve over the conventional technology. 4) Robustness, safety, reliability, and data privacy of AI models.

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Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence

Patently-O

Promoting innovation and competition in AI, such as through public-private partnerships, addressing intellectual property issues in ways that “Protect inventors and creators”, and ensuring market competition and opportunities for small businesses. ” Improving government use of AI.

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Trade Secrets Pre Patenting

Patently-O

The touchstone of invention is when the inventors have a full mental conception of the invention, including how to make and use the invention. General rights of privacy allow a person to keep secret information without intrusion by the government or by wrongful acts by third parties. by Dennis Crouch.

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Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-04-23

Barry Sookman

It’s just human nature: AI cannot be a patent inventor in Australia [link] 2022-04-18. Fenech and Fenech Advocates | New Privacy Shield Announced – what now? WIPO The Direction of Innovation [link] 2022-04-18. Digital Economy Partnership Agreement Is a Big Step Forward: Canada Should Join [link] 2022-04-19. link] 2022-04-21.

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