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Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

John Harmon on the Evolving Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Intellectual Property

John Harmon is a shareholder in both the Mechanical and Chemical & Materials Technologies Practices at Wolf Greenfield. He represents clients in industry and academia in a wide range of technologies related to the mechanical,...more

Knobbe Martens

Claim Construction When Uniformly Referring to Aspects of an Invention

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Chewy, Inc. v. International Business Machines Corporation - Before Moore, Chief Judge, Stoll and Cunningham. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York....more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

The Quest for an "Artificial Intelligence" Inventor

The United States Constitution provides the basis for patent laws; it says "Congress shall have power . . . to promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

USPTO Requests Public Comments on Artificial Intelligence and Inventorship

On February 14, 2023, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a notice in the Federal Register (88 Fed. Reg. 9492) requesting public comments about 1) the current state of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Emerging...more

Venable LLP

Generative AI - Copyright Overview Part 1

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Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is a technology promising to disrupt how artwork is created, software is developed, and text is written. This disruption brings with it a host of new legal questions surrounding...more

McCarter & English, LLP

Artificial Intelligence and Inventorship: An Expected Decision with Uncertain Consequences

The top U.S. patent court has confirmed what many were expecting in the patent community — that artificial intelligence (AI) is not considered an “individual” according to the Patent Act and thus AI cannot be named as an...more

Clark Hill PLC

Artificial Intelligence and Inventorship: Federal Court of Appeals Determines That Patent Inventors Must Be Human

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Inventions such as the wheel, the printing press, light bulb, telescope, microscope, transistor, microchip, and the Internet, are amazing in and of themselves. However, these, and thousands of other inventions have also...more

Miller Nash LLP

CAFC Confirms That Artificial Intelligence Cannot Be an Inventor

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About a year ago, we reported on a case out of the Eastern District of Virginia. Stephen Thaler had appealed a decision by the USPTO refusing to recognize an AI machine he created as a person. Judge Brinkema of the Eastern...more

Morgan Lewis

US Federal Circuit: Artificial Intelligence Machine Is Not an Inventor

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed on August 5 that only a natural person—not an artificial intelligence system—can be an inventor....more

Locke Lord LLP

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

Proskauer - Life Sciences

Update on Artificial Intelligence as a Patent Inventor

Our previous blog posts, Artificial Intelligence as the Inventor of Life Sciences Patents? and Update on Artificial Intelligence: Court Rules that AI Cannot Qualify As “Inventor,” discuss recent inventorship issues...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Can Computer Systems Using Artificial Intelligence Patent their own Inventions?

Increasingly, companies are using artificial intelligence to invent new methods and products.  But can a named inventor be a non-human machine under the law? ...more

Winstead PC

Recent Developments in Artificial Intelligence and IP Law: South Africa Grants World’s First Patent for AI-Created Invention

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On July 28, the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission of South Africa granted the world’s first patent on an invention created by an artificial intelligence (“AI”) inventor. This development marks an important...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

How To Patent Software And Computer-Implemented Business Methods In The US And Abroad

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It is well known that in the U.S., abstract ideas, laws of nature, natural phenomena, and products of nature are all excluded from patenting under 35 U.S.C. § 101. This article briefly outlines various U.S. approaches to...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Patenting Software in AI, VR, and 3D Printing

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With rapid changes, pressure to innovate, and acceleration of implementation of advanced technology across all stages of the supply chain over the past year, there are important intellectual property (IP) considerations that...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

How to Successfully Obtain Blockchain Patents

As with other rapidly-evolving technologies, the blockchain space is experiencing a frenzy of patent activity. The data shows that there are 3-4 times as many published applications as there are issued patents for these...more

Kilpatrick

3 Key Takeaways - Subject Matter Eligibility, Inventorship, and Artificial Intelligence

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Recently, Sameer Vadera was a panelist on the “Subject Matter Eligibility, Inventorship, and Artificial Intelligence” panel co-hosted by the Pauline Newman IP American Inn of Court and the PTAB Bar Association. The panelists...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

On the Patent Eligibility of Graphical User Interfaces: Part I

The evolution of graphical user interfaces parallels the evolution of computing technology itself.  As computers grow more powerful and sophisticated, so does their ability to display cutting-edge representations of...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Patently Obvious? AI as an Inventor After DABUS

On 7 September 2020, the UK government published a call for views on the future relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and intellectual property (IP). Though the government called for views on all areas of...more

Jones Day

District Courts Find PTAB Statements Constitute Disclaimer

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In Linksmart Wireless Tech., LLC v. Caesars Entm’t Corp., Case No. 2:18-cv-00862-MMD-NJK (D. Nev. May 8, 2020) the Court addressed disputed claim terms in U.S. Reissued Patent No. RE46,459 (the “’459 Patent”), Linksmart had...more

Jones Day

JONES DAY PRESENTS®: Artificial Intelligence: The Growing Role of AI on Patents

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The emergence of artificial intelligence-related technology as a means of innovation has led to uncertainties for companies across industries, primarily because U.S. patent law has historically held that intellectual property...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Hidden Layers Between AI & Patent Policy: Global Patent Office Policy Considerations and Perspectives

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With the ever increasing adoption of AI technology, no industry will unlikely be left untouched by Artificial Intelligence in the coming years. The worldwide spending on AI systems is estimated to increase as much as 100...more

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

PTAB Strategies and Insights - March 2020: Another Patent Ineligible Technology - Adding to the Growing List

We wanted to bring to your attention a recent case out of the Federal Circuit: Customedia v. Dish.  This case focused on patent-eligibility and computer software claims... ...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Update on Federal Register Notice on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Patent Issues

As noted in our previous post, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published a request for comments for a list of questions regarding Artificial Intelligence (AI) Patent Issues in the Federal Register on August 21,...more

Jones Day

When Innovation Creates: Additional Developments in Artificial Intelligence at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

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The Situation: Advances in artificial intelligence ("AI") are providing the ability to automatically create and design innovations without human assistance. AI's impact on patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, and other...more

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