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USPTO and Copyright Office Basics on Applying for and Registering AI-Assisted Material

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Want to learn more about drafting, negotiating, and understanding intellectual property and technology contracts and have 10 minutes to spare? Grab your morning coffee or afternoon tea and dig into our Tech Contract Quick...more

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AI and Invention: USPTO Issues More Guidance

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On July 17, 2024, the U.S. Patent Office issued additional guidance regarding patentability and inventorship concerns relating to Artificial Intelligence. This guidance expands upon prior guidelines, as discussed in a...more

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USPTO Seeks Public Comment on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Patentability

The relentless march of technological progress presents a unique challenge for the intellectual property (IP) landscape. Earlier this year, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a Request for Comments...more

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Ghost in the machine: AI and patent protection

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On December 20, 2023, the UK Supreme Court dismissed Dr. Stephen Thaler’s appeal from the Court of Appeal (England and Wales), finding that AI cannot be an inventor because an inventor must be a natural person1. This issue...more

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AI-assisted inventions: USPTO’s most recent guidance for determining inventorship

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AI technologies bring several new business opportunities, but they also bring a host of new legal questions, including in intellectual property law. A very important question at the intersection of AI and IP is: how do we...more

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Can an AI Hire a Lawyer?

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A recently-fired Google engineer claims that the company’s artificial intelligence program has become sentient, and—even worse—has hired a lawyer.  A court may now have to face a question once considered only theoretical: is...more

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MarkIt to Market® – March 2022

Thank you for reading the March 2022 issue of Sterne Kessler's MarkIt to Market® newsletter. This month, we discuss copyright registration eligibility in relation to non-human authorship and new legislation surrounding...more

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Artificial Intelligence and Patent Law: What Happens After DABUS?

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This article is based on a Womble Bond Dickinson/Berkeley Center for Law & Technology presentation, with Womble Bond Dickinson attorneys Chris Mammen, Brent Babcock and Bill Jacobs and IBM IP Policy Counsel Yeen Tham leading...more

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Hidden Layers Between AI & Patent Policy: Global Patent Office Policy Considerations and Perspectives

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With the ever increasing adoption of AI technology, no industry will unlikely be left untouched by Artificial Intelligence in the coming years. The worldwide spending on AI systems is estimated to increase as much as 100...more

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When Innovation Creates: Additional Developments in Artificial Intelligence at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

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The Situation: Advances in artificial intelligence ("AI") are providing the ability to automatically create and design innovations without human assistance. AI's impact on patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, and other...more

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