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[Podcast] Making Moves: The USPTO Provides Guidance, Proposes Changes

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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had a busy summer in 2024. Businesses and individuals with AI and software-based inventions paid particularly close attention to the agency when, in July, it released updated guidance on...more

DLA Piper

Patenting Quantum Computing: Challenges, Trends, and Future Prospects

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Predictions about the arrival of fault-tolerant quantum computing and commercially viable quantum computing vary widely. Some experts estimate that within the next three to five years, we may see early quantum advantage in...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Microsoft Filed Patent Application on Method for Eliminating Artificial Intelligence Hallucinations

Microsoft is developing a way to eliminate hallucinations, or false responses, in artificial intelligence (AI) models. It filed U.S. Patent Application No. 18/140,658, entitled “Interacting with a Language Model using...more

Dickinson Wright

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

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Intellectual Property Report

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Properly pleading inequitable conduct claims is a challenge, a challenge that can be met with early due diligence and attention to detail in your pleading. The leading case that set forth the legal framework for inequitable...more

MoFo Tech

USPTO Guidance: Artificial Intelligence Inventions That Solve A Technical Problem Eligible For Patenting

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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued guidance regarding patent eligibility with respect to patenting artificial intelligence (AI) inventions. See an overview of the eligibility test applied by the USPTO....more

Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP

IP Alert: USPTO Issues Guidance for Examining Means-Plus-Function and Step-Plus-Function Claim Limitations

On March 18, the USPTO issued a guidance document on how to examine claims that recite functional limitations without necessarily using the term “means” under 35 U.S.C. § 112. The guidance document aims to improve clarity,...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Is Your Blockchain Invention Patentable?

Blockchain is becoming central to more FinTech patent portfolios than ever – but it’s harder to obtain protection on blockchain than most other technologies. The US Supreme Court’s decision in Alice v. CLS Bank (2014)...more

Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti,...

The Domination of Cybersecurity

Key takeaway: Despite the Supreme Court’s recent pronouncement of patent-eligible subject matter, cybersecurity innovation will remain an active area for intellectual property protection through the patent application and...more

Weintraub Tobin

AI Systems May Invent, But Are They Inventors?

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Previously, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“Federal Circuit”) has found that a non-human may infringe patents. Arguably, an AI system, which is a non-human, can also create or invent. But can an AI system be a...more

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Trade Secret or Patent?

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Business owners often ask whether they should protect their intellectual property with a trade secret or a patent. The answer is: It depends. What Can Be Protected? The first thing to consider is what it is that...more

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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

Knobbe Martens

Big Picture on Software Patent Eligibility: The Forces at Work

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Much of the modern economy is driven by software development. Companies are creating and refining new apps that run on mobile devices, and using machine learning to provide users with personalized user interfaces and...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

The Government Whittles Away at Life Sciences Patents

The current U.S. Supreme Court has been noted for its hostility to patent holders in general, but the Supreme Court has been especially hostile to any sort of life sciences or software invention. The Court has attempted to...more

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