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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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Providing a Detailed Explanation of the Evidence

Patently-O

Relevant for this appeal was its attempt to provide evidence showing it was the first to make the claimed invention, antedating the prior art. The following comes from the briefs by the patentee: The inventors conceived of the claimed subject matter before Kovatch’s January 4, 2000 U.S. priority filing date. 2059, Occhiogrosso Dec.

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Empowering Innovation: The Role of Intellectual Property in Technology Transfer

IP and Legal Filings

If IPR is not understood in technology transfer process, sharing of knowledge and invention faces legal challenges. Further Trademarks Act, 1999 and Designs Act, 2000 allow licensing of trademarks and designs respectively. Before the knowledge or invention is transferred, the owner must make sure they own rights over it.

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Public-Private Partnerships: Examining the Impact of Publicly Funded Research on Pharmaceutical Patents

IP and Legal Filings

INTRODUCTION To identify the role of public funded research in the pharmaceutical industry one has to first determine the problems faced by the public in accessing these inventions and the level of patenting activities in the public funded research institutions in the pharmaceutical sector.

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Napster Sparked a File-Sharing Revolution 25 Years Ago

TorrentFreak

The invention of the MP3 format in 1993 didn’t make any mainstream news headlines. Invented by the German engineer Karlheinz Brandenburg and colleagues at the Fraunhofer Society, the coding format made it possible to reduce the size of music files without any significant loss of audible sound quality.

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Eligibility of Computer-Implemented Inventions Behind Unprecedented Numbers of Patent Office Rulings

LexBlog IP

The number of published Patent Office decisions relating to subject-matter eligibility of patent claims has risen from fewer than one per year in the 2000-2009 decade to 19 decisions in 2021 and 21 decisions in just the first seven months of 2022. Almost all of these have related to computer-implemented inventions.

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Petition for review filed in referring decision to G2/21 (T 0116/18)

The IPKat

G 2/21 and T 0116/18 : Case catch-up In G 2/21 , the EBA considered whether post-published evidence may be taken into account for inventive step. In order to be relied on for inventive step, a technical effect must be "conceptually comprised" in the broadest technical teaching of the application as filed ("encompassed").