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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 original patent application was filed Feb 9, 2021 –one year and two days later and outside the one year grace period. by Dennis Crouch. Venture (Fed.

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Patents and Cannabis

More Than Your Mark

Patents have issued with at least one claim containing the word “cannabis” or “cannabinoid.” The USPTO applies the same legal standard when reviewing utility patent applications related to cannabis, as it does to all other inventions. In short, a substance’s Schedule I classification is irrelevant to its patentability.

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Artificial intelligence and intellectual property rights: the USPTO DABUS decision

Barry Sookman

This is a question that is being studied including by the United States Patent and Trade Mark Office (USPTO) which launched an investigation into issues associated with patenting artificial intelligence inventions. patent law, 35 USC §§ 1 et seq. SODRAC 2003 Inc., an inventor must be a natural person.