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USPTO Delivers Inventorship Guidance on AI-Assisted Inventions

IP Intelligence

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released its much anticipated Inventorship Guidance on AI-Assisted Inventions (“Guidance”). [1] The Guidance strives to ensure balance between protecting and incentivizing AI-assisted inventions and not hindering future human innovation, as “the patent system is designed to encourage human ingenuity.” [2]

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Patent – a shield for modern biotechnology

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Thus, a legal safeguard should be provided to inventors for their inventions to keep their interest in science alive. What are the biotechnological inventions? This leads them to think about protecting their inventions from unauthorized use. The study needs a high level of patience and huge investments in time and money.

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Empowering Innovation: Women in Patent Filing

Intepat

Women inventors are making significant strides, leaving an indelible mark on the world of innovation and intellectual property. Women & Patents Women have played a vital role in developing the Industry through their inventions. She had invented a Process for weaving straw with silk or thread.

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Competition Law: The Patent Pendulum

Intepat

When an inventor is granted exclusive rights over their inventions for a specific period of time, it provides a return on their investment in terms of time, resources and capital. The idea that a specific invention will allow the inventor to reap benefits has a direct effect on incentivising inventors to create and invent more.

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Dragons’ Den, Episode 5, Series 20

Dragons' Den

You just mentioned IP” First up in the Den, we had entrepreneur and inventor Michael Horsfall, asking for 45k in exchange for 10% of his Van Guardian business. This left me thinking about design protection. How can you protect fashion designs? Find out more about unregistered designs by visiting  our website.

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On Sale Bar – Sales require Consideration, not necessarily Money Payment

Patently-O

2022) focuses on the classic patent law question of whether the inventor’s pre-filing sales activity serve to bar the patent from issuing. The “on sale bar” prohibits patenting an invention that was placed “on sale” prior to the application being filed. by Dennis Crouch. Venture (Fed. ” Pfaff v.

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Software and Business Method Patents - How to Improve Your Chances?

Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

Some of the most valuable inventions are software implemented methods. Many software methods are business method patents designed to make business more efficient. As the patent office historically stated, if an invention did not have a physical existence or manifest a discernible physical effect or change, you could not patent it.