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Carlton Fields

No Copyright Protection for AI-Assisted Creations: Thaler v. Perlmutter

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Dr. Stephen Thaler’s attempts to obtain intellectual property protection for artificial intelligence were once again shot down by the courts, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia affirmed that the...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Assessing Inputs: Determining AI’s Role in US Intellectual Property Protections

The US Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) issued additional guidance on the contribution of artificial intelligence (AI) in its January 2025 AI Strategy. Similarly, the US Copyright Office issued part two of its “Copyright and...more

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

AI IP Year in Review - Five Key Takeaways from the 2024 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

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Innovating with AI: Ensuring You Own Your Inventions

When you're thinking about using AI to develop your company's technology, there are two primary areas that I like to think about. First is ownership. Currently, under U.S. law, the outputs of artificial intelligence are not...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Intellectual Property Law in the Age of Generative AI

The recent surge of accessible generative AI (“GenAI”) tools has kept attorneys, particularly those in the intellectual property, technology, data privacy, and cybersecurity spaces, on their toes. Within the intellectual...more

Venable LLP

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

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

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

USPTO Guidance on Use of AI-Based Tools

The USPTO has issued several recent Federal Register Notices this calendar year. The latest, entitled Guidance on Use of Artificial Intelligence-Based Tools in Practice Before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, 89...more

Fenwick & West LLP

How to Maximize Your AI-Assisted Invention’s Patentability

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Artificial intelligence is rapidly reinventing the research and development process, but until recently, patentability remained a major uncertainty. That’s until the United States Patent and Trademark Office stepped in and...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

A Legal Primer on Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property

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On November 30, 2022, OpenAI captured the world’s attention when it introduced version 3.5 of its ChatGPT service. What began as cocktail hour conversations and funny experiments quickly made its way into boardrooms and...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

AI rise increases importance of IP audits

Having a clear view of your company’s patents, trademarks, copyrights and ‎trade secrets is a first step to protecting your intellectual property and ‎building a process to maximize new IP value.‎ It’s well known that a...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

AI-Assisted Inventions May Be Patentable, but Only Humans Can Be Inventors

As directed by President Biden’s Executive Order (EO) on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (the AI EO), the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released its...more

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Patenting with Artificial Inventors

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Guidance on using AI to Invent - Due to the quick rise of artificial intelligence (AI), most (if not all) of the laws relating to the US patent system were not written with AI in mind. Court precedent and the United States...more

White & Case LLP

5 Practical Considerations for Users of Generative AI Tools following Thaler and Allen

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You are likely already familiar with two US recent decisions that have addressed the copyrightability of AI-generated works: (a) On August 18, 2023, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled in...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

AI Insights: Copyright Office Rejects Application for Refusal To Disclaim AI-Generated Elements

Copyright Office Rejects Application for Refusal To Disclaim AI-Generated Elements - The U.S. Copyright Office has once again refused to register a visual work that included elements generated using artificial intelligence...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

AI Insights: Copyright Office Provides Guidance on the Registration of Works That Include AI-Generated Material

Copyright Office Provides Guidance on the Registration of Works That Include AI-Generated Material - During a June 2023 webinar, representatives of the Copyright Office provided much needed clarification and guidance on...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

AI and Patent Law: Balancing Innovation and Inventorship

A new surge in business innovation has arrived as companies take advantage of the unique efficiencies and benefits of artificial intelligence (AI). Recent news headlines about chatbots like ChatGPT and Bard highlight the...more

Morgan Lewis

Copyright, Patent, or Trade Secret Protection for AI Content: Challenges and Considerations

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From creative endeavors like art and music to practical applications like translation and weather forecasting, artificial intelligence (AI) is producing more and more content and being used by inventors. Given the nuances in...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

It’s Alive? The Open Question of Ownership over the Creations of an AI

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Who owns the creations of an artificial intelligence? From ownership in general to copyright and patent law, the answer is unclear....more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Benefits of Using Copyrights to Protect Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Inventions

We previously discussed which portions of an artificial intelligence/machine-learning (“AI/ML”) platform could be patented or protected under trade secret, such as related to biotech and synthetic biology. Equally important...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

AI Artwork: Worth a Thousand Words, but Zero Copyright Protection?

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Technology is changing, but is copyright law keeping up?  Stephen Thaler clearly believes it is not and has sued the U.S. Copyright Office over its refusal to register artwork created by his artificial intelligence software. ...more

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The UK Government Has Published Its ‎Response to Its Consultation on Artificial ‎Intelligence and ‎Intellectual Property

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The UK Government on 28 June 2022 published its response to its Consultation on Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) and Intellectual Property (“IP”). The Consultation examined three areas of IP where the capability of AI has...more

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Copyright Office Denies Application for AI “AUTHOR”

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The three-person Review Board of the U.S. Copyright Office (Board), headed by Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter, recently denied an application to register the copyright claimed in a visual work created by artificial...more

Hogan Lovells

Artificial Intelligence and IP: UK IPO consults a second time

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At the end of October 2021, the UK Intellectual Property Office launched its second consultation on artificial intelligence. The consultation is seeking evidence and views on the extent to which patents and copyright should...more

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Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: what next for the UK?

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There is still time to provide input to the UKIPO on copyright protection of computer-generated works, copyright exceptions for text and data mining and AI inventorship of patents as the government bids to make Britain a...more

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