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Reviewing 2024's Crucial Patent Law Developments

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As 2024 draws to a close, several crucial developments — some aimed at modernizing long-standing legal practices, others addressing emerging challenges — have reached patent law. Originally published in Law360 - December...more

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Alice Patent Eligibility Analysis Divergence Before USPTO and District Court

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The Mayo/Alice framework for determining subject matter eligibility of patents under 35 U.S.C. §101 has long since antagonized both patent prosecutors and litigators alike, causing significant uncertainty in the realm of...more

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

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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

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USPTO Issues Updated Guidance on Patent Subject Matter Eligibility and AI

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From the U.S. Supreme Court’s perspective, its Mayo and Alice decisions from 2012 and 2014, respectively, are still sufficient to govern patent law’s § 101 analysis. This inference stems in-part of the Supreme Court’s cert...more

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Media & Entertainment: 10 Legal Developments Impacting Business and Legal Decisions

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With 2024 underway, our team highlights 10 of the most pressing legal issues facing the media and entertainment industry this year. In 2024, media and entertainment businesses will focus on whether the longstanding tenet...more

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Generative AI-Assisted Patent Inventorship Questions Remain

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The Situation: The U.S. Supreme Court recently denied certiorari in Thaler v. Vidal, leaving intact the Federal Circuit's ruling that only human beings, and not artificial intelligence ("AI") systems, can be inventors under...more

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Patenting AI: How US Patent System Evolves To Keep Up With the AI Revolution

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The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) applications in recent years has been accompanied by a surge in patent filings by AI developers. But like many other emerging technologies before it, AI inventions face patent...more

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Federal Circuit Holds That AI Cannot Be an “Inventor” Under the Patent Act - Only Humans Can Get Patents

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On April 23, 2023, the US Supreme Court denied a petition for certiorari filed by Stephen Thaler, following the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s finding that Thaler’s artificial intelligence system — Device for...more

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End of Line: Supreme Court Deletes AI Inventorship

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The Supreme Court dealt the latest blow in Dr. Stephen Thaler’s continuing quest for recognition of AI inventorship of patents, by denying certiorari in Thaler v. Vidal (No. 22-919). Despite support of Dr. Thaler from...more

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Why we think AI can be an inventor on a patent application

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On April 18, 2023, we submitted a Supreme Court amicus brief expressing our encouragement for the justices to rule on the question of whether it is proper for an artificial intelligence (AI) to be an inventor on a patent...more

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Petition for Writ of Certiorari filed in DABUS AI-as-Inventor Case

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Dr. Stephen Thaler, Ph.D., a computer scientist and inventor, has petitioned the Supreme Court of the United States to consider the question of whether the Patent Act restricts the definition of an "inventor" to human...more

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Patent Considerations and the Metaverse

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The Metaverse presents a variety of possibilities: from technology that enables digital content to be laid over the real world to application of real-world characteristics to a purely online environment. It is also a...more

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