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Morgan Lewis

USPTO in 2025: Leadership, Operational, Legislative, and Policy Changes to Watch

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As 2025 unfolds, changes across the patent landscape are unfolding. From agency leadership transitions to proposed legislation and evolving AI-related policies, these shifts could impact patent prosecution, post-grant...more

ArentFox Schiff

AI Legal Landscape: Top Challenges and Strategies in 2025

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As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to develop at a rapid pace, even the most sophisticated general counsel (GC) and in-house legal teams will be hard pressed to keep up with the evolving legal landscape....more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

USPTO Issues Artificial Intelligence Strategy

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in intellectual property is as big – and as fast-changing – a topic as ever. On January 14, 2025, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published an Artificial Intelligence Strategy...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

USPTO Announces New Effort to Promote AI and Emerging Technologies

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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently announced an official Artificial Intelligence Strategy that outlines how the Office plans to address the promise and challenges of artificial intelligence (AI) in its...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Reviewing 2024's AI Patent And Copyright Developments

Artificial intelligence dominated this year's emerging technology updates from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the U.S. Copyright Office. These agencies, among many others, were kept quite busy under the directives...more

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PTAB/USPTO Update - August 2024

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On July 7, the Senate passed a resolution “[r]ecognizing the importance of trademarks in the economy and the role of trademarks in protecting consumer safety, by designating the month of July as ‘National Anti-Counterfeiting...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Inside USPTO’s AI Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance

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In accordance with President Biden’s Executive Order on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in October 2023, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued new subject matter eligibility guidance relating to AI...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

This Summer in Artificial Intelligence: Newly Released USPTO Guidance and Exemplary Worldwide Inventorship Updates

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently published new guidance on subject-matter eligibility as related to Artificial Intelligence (AI), opening a written comment window to respond with a deadline of...more

Mintz - Antitrust Viewpoints

USPTO Issues Guidance on AI Use to Patent Professionals — AI: The Washington Report

Pursuant to President Biden’s October 2023 executive order on AI, on April 11, 2024, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO or Office) published “Guidance on Use of Artificial Intelligence-Based Tools in...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

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

The USPTO's Guidance on Use of AI-based Tools in Practice

Since President Biden issued his Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has been investigating the potential pitfalls of...more

Benesch

Artificial Intelligence Presents Challenges for Intellectual Property Laws’ Focus on Human Creation

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Artificial intelligence (AI) and its ability to generate content closely resembling human output present issues with respect to IP ownership. Maybe you have asked ChatGPT to create a flashy advertisement or write some code...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

The Pros And Cons Of Protecting AI As Trade Secrets

Trade secrets have become a de facto intellectual property right for securing valuable artificial intelligence information. Despite regulatory trends toward greater transparency of AI models, federal policy acknowledges,...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

BakerHostetler

USPTO Delivers Inventorship Guidance on AI-Assisted Inventions

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Further to President Biden’s 2023 executive order (EO) on the safe, secure and trustworthy development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) last year, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released its much...more

Smart & Biggar

AI-assisted inventions: USPTO’s most recent guidance for determining inventorship

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AI technologies bring several new business opportunities, but they also bring a host of new legal questions, including in intellectual property law. A very important question at the intersection of AI and IP is: how do we...more

Jones Day

USPTO Issues New Guidance for Inventions Assisted by Artificial Intelligence: Human Contribution Is Key

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The Background: In response to the Biden administration's "Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence" on October 30, 2023, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office...more

Foley Hoag LLP

PTO Provides Guidance on Inventions Created with Help from Artificial Intelligence

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On February 13, 2024, the USPTO (PTO) published its guidance for inventions made with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI). The PTO published the guidance in response to the directive it received in the Executive...more

Holland & Knight LLP

USPTO Issues New Guidance on AI-Assisted Inventorship

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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued new guidance on Feb. 12, 2024, regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) while developing new inventions. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit...more

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USPTO Issues New Guidance on Patenting AI-Assisted Inventions

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On Monday, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued guidance on the patentability of inventions developed with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI). This guidance, which was published in the Federal...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

USPTO AI Guidance: Human vs. Machine - Humans Win...For Now

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On February 13, 2024, the USPTO published a Federal Register notice on Inventorship Guidance for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-assisted Inventions ("Guidance") in response to President Biden’s October 2023 Executive Order on...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Patent Practitioners Take Note: (Even) if You Use AI, Read Before You File

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On February 6, 2024, the USPTO weighed in with guidance for practitioners using—or considering using—AI in preparing submissions to the USPTO. In essence, Director Kathi Vidal has reminded practitioners that they must sign...more

Smith Anderson

AI Law and Policy Developments Likely Will Be Seen This Year

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One of 2023’s more significant — and potentially disruptive — developments in business and culture was the arrival of a slew of generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems. At the beginning of 2023, ChatGPT quickly...more

Holland & Knight LLP

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

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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

BakerHostetler

White House Instructs USPTO to Provide Guidance on AI

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On Oct. 30th, President Biden issued an executive order (EO) on the safe, secure and trustworthy development and use of artificial intelligence (AI). Regarding patents, the EO requires the United States Patent and Trademark...more

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