Google, Inventions

The Coming Shift from Patent to Trade Secret Protection for Generative AI Inventions

Holland & Knight LLP on 12/7/2023

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has the remarkable ability to develop novel solutions to problems, and patent law has historically protected those solutions. Under current statutes and jurisprudence, however, only...more

AI-Based Patent Applications: Recent History and the Future

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints on 10/31/2023

The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) as a field of technology has correlated with an increase in patent application filings on AI-related inventions over the past two decades. With more filings than ever, businesses...more

Don’t Ask Judges to Be Archaeologists

Weintraub Tobin on 6/23/2023

In response to Google L.L.C.’s (“Google”) and other’s petitions for inter partes review (“I.P.R.”) of two patents owned by Parus Holdings, Inc. (“Parus”), the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) of the United States Patent...more

Federal Circuit Appeals from the PTAB and ITC: Summaries of Key 2022 Decisions

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 2/8/2023

As part of the recovery from the global COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit took steps to return to normal operations. It began requiring live oral arguments in August 2022 and, by November,...more

When Can Common Sense be Relied Upon to Find an Invention Obvious?

Troutman Pepper on 8/23/2016

All patent practitioners recognize that a single prior art reference can be used to reject claims in an obviousness rejection. However, the issue is whether the Patent Office must provide additional evidence, above and beyond...more

Five Patenting Lessons Exemplified by Google’s Glucose-Sensing Contact Lenses

Knobbe Martens on 1/21/2014

Google recently announced on its blog that its “Google-X” laboratory is testing a prototype “smart” contact lens that includes a miniaturized electronic sensor designed to measure glucose level in the wearer’stears. I...more