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The USPTO released proposed guidelines addressing the complex issue of AI inventorship. The USPTO is not the only agency attempting to tackle this issue; jurisdictions across the globe have been grappling with whether...more
McDermott is committed to providing insightful commentary on intellectual property (IP) developments from around the world to our Japanese clients. During these sessions, a variety of speakers from McDermott’s offices in the...more
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is fueling a surge in global patent filings for AI-related innovations, but differences in national patent laws and examination standards for such inventions...more
Following similar decisions in other countries, a Japanese court held for the first time on May 16, 2024, that an inventor in the Patent Act is limited to a natural person and does not include an artificial intelligence...more
On May 16, 2024, the Tokyo District Court (the “Court”) found that an artificial intelligence (“AI”) that autonomously generated an invention cannot be recognized as the inventor of that invention. The Court also expressed...more
Research and development conducted worldwide is currently driving the so-called “Fourth Industrial Revolution” (referred to herein as “4IR”). 4IR encompasses three major fields: (1) physical technologies, including autonomous...more