Artificial Intelligence, Technology Sector, Patent Act

AI IP Year in Review - Five Key Takeaways from the 2024 House Judiciary Hearing on AI-Assisted Inventions and Creative Works

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 1/28/2025

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

Federal Circuit: AI Cannot Be a Named ‘Inventor’ Under the Patent Act

BakerHostetler on 8/9/2022

On August 5, 2022, the Federal Circuit in Thaler v. Vidal ruled that an artificial intelligence (AI) system cannot be listed as a named inventor on a patent application, affirming the United States Patent and Trademark...more

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: The Patent Act defines “inventor” as limited to natural persons

WilmerHale on 8/9/2022

Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - REALTIME ADAPTIVE STREAMING LLC v. NETFLIX, INC. [OPINION] (2021-1484, 2021-1485, 2021-1518, 2021-1519, July 27, 2022) (Newman, Reyna, and Chen) - Chen, J. Affirming district...more

Update: Federal Judge Rules That Only Natural Persons Can Be Inventors

Winstead PC on 9/15/2021

Recently, a federal judge in the Eastern District of Virginia issued a memorandum opinion in the ongoing dispute over whether artificial intelligence (“AI”) machines may be properly identified as inventors on U.S. patent...more

Federal Court Rules That Artificial Intelligence Cannot Be An Inventor Under The Patent Act

Fox Rothschild LLP on 9/13/2021

Although this blog typically focuses on decisions rendered in intellectual property and/or antitrust cases currently in or that originated in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware or are in the Federal...more

A Looming AI War: Transparency v. IP Rights

Fenwick & West LLP on 8/25/2019

As artificial intelligence systems become more prevalent in daily life, efforts to create a unifying set of AI principles have intensified. In the past few months, at least three major works have been published on the issue....more