In 2018, Congress enacted the “National Quantum Initiative Act.” This act set out goals and priorities for the next 10 years, and more importantly, funding for the next five years to accelerate quantum technology in the United…
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The landscape of patent law for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) innovations has become fraught with uncertainty. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's precedential opinion in Recentive…
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To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following…
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Patent law in many respects has its own language and idiosyncratic expressions, and one such respect involves so-called "transitional" words or phrases (discussed in greater depth in the Manual of Patent Examination Procedure §…
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Almost two decades ago the Supreme Court handed down what has turned out to be one of its most significant patent decisions of this century: eBay v. MercExchange. The eBay case has had the effect of precluding prevailing…
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Almost two decades ago, the Supreme Court handed down what has turned out to be one of its most significant patent decisions of this century: eBay v. MercExchange. The eBay case has had the effect of precluding prevailing…
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To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following…
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Weighing in just two days after Judge Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued his fair use summary judgment opinion in Bartz v. Anthropic, Judge Chhabria (also of the Northern District of…
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In one of the most consequential decisions to date involving generative artificial intelligence (genAI) and copyright law, Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that some of…
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As has been noted recently (Agilent Technologies, Inc. v. Synthego Corp.), fact-based decisions from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (typically from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board) are reviewed under the substantial…
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To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following…
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One of the assumptions, or promises, or hopes, attendant on the inauguration of post-grant review proceedings (particularly inter partes reviews) under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act was that, as in European Opposition…
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To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following…
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An argument could be made that one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions in U.S. patent law in the last thirty years was Dickinson v. Zurko. In that case the Court held that the Federal Circuit was bound by the…
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The evolution of subject matter eligibility after the Supreme Court's decisions in Prometheus v. Mayo, Alice v. CLS Bank, and Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics has resulted in a regime of predictable…
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