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Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

Five Key Takeaways from the Recent House Judiciary Hearing on AI-Assisted Inventions and Creative Works

As companies—and more recently, courts—have struggled to address the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in innovation, legislators are embroiled in a struggle of their own. Over the past two years, the Senate and House have...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - May 2024 #4

LKQ Corporation v. GM Global Technology Operations LLC, Appeal No. 2021-2348 (Fed. Cir. May 21, 2024) - In a rare en banc opinion, the Federal Circuit overruled decades of prior precedent concerning the standard to...more

AEON Law

Patent Poetry: How to Get Your Patent Examined Sooner

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The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently extended its First Time Filer Expedited Examination Program. This pilot program is “designed to increase accessibility to the patent system for inventors who are new to...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Who Solved the Problem? Joint Inventors, That’s Who

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s decision to correct inventorship in a post-issuance inventorship dispute, finding that the alleged joint inventors’ contributions were significant...more

Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig PLLC

Provisional Patent Applications: What Do They Do For You?

Many inventors express an interest in obtaining a “provisional patent” (yet that doesn’t actually exist). What they’re referring to is known as a provisional patent application. While a seeming trivial word addition, a patent...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Intellectual Property 101: What is a Patent?

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ("PTO") provides extensive online resources on its website. While much of the content may be directed to patent and trademark practitioners to perform filings and access regulations, some...more

Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C.

What Is a Patent and How Do I Get One

You may be an inventor with an idea, a small business owner, or an international corporation. No matter your size, you could have an invention that is patentable. This video covers what makes inventions patentable, the types...more

Fish & Richardson

An Overview of Utility Patents in the United States

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What is a utility patent? The definition of a utility patent is a patent that covers “any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof.”...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: What You Should Know About the UK Patent Process

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Patents provide inventors exclusive rights in their discoveries. Entrepreneurs in the pharmaceutical, life sciences, medical device and many other fields look favourably upon the benefits of patents, including...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

NAI & IPO Release List of Top 100 Universities Receiving Patents in 2014

Last month, the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) published a list of the top 100 worldwide universities that received the most U.S. utility patents in 2014. The NAI...more

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