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DABUS Again Denied in the US and the UK, Part II – the Split Decision in the UK

LexBlog IP

While all three judges on the Court of Appeal agreed that an ‘inventor’ under the UK law must be a human being, the fact that DABUS is a machine was not immediately determinative of the outcome. Arnold LJ is the preeminent patent law specialist on the Court of Appeal. PDF 998kB] ).

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Legal Lessons from Holiday Lights: Clarity in Patent Drafting

LexBlog IP

7,784,961 Before sledding into the patent’s technicalities, the inventor of this Christmas cheer utilized a lesser-known path under U.S. patent law. 122(b)(2)(B)(i), the patent application was kept under wraps, avoiding publication until patent issuance. Under 35 U.S.C.

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The Quest for a Meaningful Threshold of Invention: Atlantic Works v. Brady (1883)

Patently-O

I thought I would write a more complete discussion of this important historic patent case. Atlantic Works has had a profound impact on the development of patent law, particularly in shaping the doctrine of obviousness, but more generally providing theoretical frameworks for attacking “bad patents.”

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Fish & Richardson Elevates 15 Attorneys to Principal in Class Distinguished by Diversity of Background and Experience

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

magna cum laude , Order of the Coif, from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, where she was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Air Law and Commerce and a member of the SMU Law Review Association. In 2010, Rae graduated from the University of Texas with a B.S. in electrical engineering in 2010.

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WIPIP session 7: Design Law

43(B)log

Accidental” addition of medical marijuana IDs in 2010 led to rise in applications; withdrawn. Christine Haight Farley: connecting to Katyal’s paper: “Indian man” design code. A: will be talking to PTO historian; they ended up offering to refund fees to 2010 applicants if they’d abandon them, so may never find out what happened there.

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Artificial intelligence and intellectual property rights: the USPTO DABUS decision

Barry Sookman

In the meantime, the USPTO just released a decision denying the application for a such a patent holding that under the U.S. patent law, 35 USC §§ 1 et seq. an inventor must be a natural person. Title 35 of the United States Code consistently refers to inventors as natural persons. For example, 35 U.S.C. §