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Federal Circuit Issues First Word on AI Patent Eligibility

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On April 18, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a patent infringement suit brought by Recentive Analytics, Inc. against Fox Corporation. See Recentive Analytics, Inc. v....more

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Federal Circuit Tightens Standards for AI-related Patent Eligibility

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Summary: In Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp., No. 2023-2437 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 18, 2025), the Federal Circuit delivered a clear warning: simply applying generic AI-based models to new environments is not enough to secure...more

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USPTO's AI Patent Eligibility Guidance, Vincent Look

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In 2024, the USPTO published guidance on whether an AI-based invention is patent eligible. The guidance includes three hypothetical inventions, including one relating to using an artificial neural network for data anomaly...more

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

AI IP Year in Review - AI Developments at the USPTO

Navigating Inventorship of AI-Assisted Inventions: USPTO’s Guidance and Implications - The USPTO issued guidance on AI-assisted inventions on February 13, 2024. This guidance is part of the USPTO’s ongoing efforts to address...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Leveraging Policy Changes to Achieve AI Patent Eligibility

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The patent landscape for artificial intelligence is poised to undergo significant transformation. Originally published in Law360 - August 23, 2024....more

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Fostering Innovation in Personalized Medicine: The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act

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A planned vote in the Judiciary Committee on the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) was recently delayed in the Senate. The bill was introduced by Sens. Chris Coons, D-Del., and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., in 2023. It...more

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Part 2: Key Takeaways from Claim Examples in the 2024 AI Patent Eligibility Guidance

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This is the second post in a 3-part series. Example 48 is described below, which is directed to analyzing speech signals and separating desired speech from extraneous or background speech using AI....more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

Strategies for Patenting AI-Related Inventions

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence has created unprecedented opportunities for innovation, but securing patent protection for AI-related inventions remains challenging under current U.S. patent law....more

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Key Takeaways from Claim Examples in the 2024 AI Patent Eligibility Guidance: A 3-Part Series

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Part 1 - On July 17, 2024, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (the Office) released new guidance on subject matter eligibility, entitled “The 2024 Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance Update Including on Artificial...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

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Navigating the new USPTO guidance on AI patent eligibility

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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued new guidance regarding patent-eligible subject matter for artificial intelligence (AI). This new guidance is intended to assist patent examiners and stakeholders in...more

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

Subject Matter Eligibility of AI Innovations—USPTO’s Updated Guidance

This article discusses the July 17, 2024 guidance issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) regarding the subject matter eligibility of patent claims involving artificial intelligence (“AI”). The...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Developing and Patenting AI Inventions: 5 Things for Biotech Companies to Consider

As AI tools become more prevalent in the life sciences, biotechnology companies need to evaluate AI’s impact on their ability to protect the results of their research. Recent U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) guidance...more

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USPTO Extends Comment Deadline on Patent Eligible Subject Matter Guidance for AI Inventions

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The USPTO has extended the public comment deadline in order to afford all stakeholders an opportunity to weigh in on the subject matter eligibility of AI inventions....more

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Alice Patent Eligibility Analysis Divergence Before USPTO and District Court

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The Mayo/Alice framework for determining subject matter eligibility of patents under 35 U.S.C. §101 has long since antagonized both patent prosecutors and litigators alike, causing significant uncertainty in the realm of...more

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Are AI Inventions Harder to Patent?

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For a recent article published in Law360, we looked at data from the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) covering both AI and non-AI inventions from 2015 to 2020. Our findings show a stark difference: AI-related inventions...more

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The Importance of Prong Two of Step 2A for AI inventions

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Under the direction of President Biden’s executive order on artificial intelligence (AI), the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a guidance update on the subject matter eligibility analysis “to promote...more

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

AI Inventorship: Navigating Patent Rights Around the Globe

Recently, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released proposed guidelines addressing the complex issue of AI inventorship. The PTO is not the only agency attempting to tackle this issue; jurisdictions...more

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USPTO Updates Subject-Matter Guidance to Encompass Impact of Artificial Intelligence

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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has updated its patent subject-matter eligibility guidance to address inventions involving artificial intelligence (AI). Our Intellectual Property Team examines how the revised...more

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English Court of Appeal makes Emotional Perception neural network hard to patent

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There is no special treatment for neural networks when it comes to UK patenting of computer related inventions. That is the essence of the English Court of Appeal’s conclusion, led by a Judge with a keen interest in computer...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

The reality of patent claims using artificial intelligence: USPTO publishes AI guidance

The US Patent Office (USPTO) recently issued new guidance and three examples for AI-related patent claims, which indicate that claims applying AI to a process are unlikely to render the process patent-eligible at the USPTO...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

New USPTO Guidance Hones AI-Related Patent Eligibility Criteria

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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued new guidance on patent subject matter eligibility, specifically concerning AI inventions. This guidance aims to assist patent examiners in assessing whether claims in a...more

Paul Hastings LLP

Artificial Intelligence Patents: Reflections on Recent US v EU v UK Approaches

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The rapid increase in innovation and popularity surrounding AI, its capabilities and seemingly endless applications has created a technological revolution, the magnitude of which hasn’t been seen for decades. This has led to...more

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USPTO Lights the Way for AI Inventions to Shine

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The murky world of artificial intelligence-enabled inventions requires illumination. Did the USPTO’s recent guidance provide this much-needed illumination, or merely leave a trail of breadcrumbs? Some say the guidance is...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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