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Guest Post: DABUS Gains Traction: South Africa Becomes First Country to Recognize AI-Invented Patent

Patently-O

Ryan Abbott, have made headlines around the world as they sought patent protection for a fractal-inspired beverage container (shown below) that they contend was invented by DABUS. Does substantive South African patent law preclude AI inventorship? Was granting the patent a mistake? Stephen Thaler and Prof.

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Product Patents and Process Patents: Analysing the MHC’s Insights in the cases of Kyorin and Frito-Lay

SpicyIP

Assistant Controller Of Patents , where the patent application pertains to a claim of an “orally rapidly disintegrating tablet comprising imidafenacin”, thereby having the advantage of being easily administered to elderly people and children (application no. 5360/CHENP/2010). 5364/CHENP/2010 had been granted Patent No.

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WIPO General Assembly moves to diplomatic conferences on designs and traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources

The IPKat

In 2006, work on simplifying procedures for the protection of industrial designs started in the WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) , which has evolved into the draft for the proposed DLT. This is referred to as a proposed new ‘patent disclosure requirement’.

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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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Moderna sues Pfizer for mRNA Patent Infringement: when optics and profits reveal real issues in modern IP law usage

IPilogue

Michelle Mao is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Moderna and Pfizer battle’s over the inventive process of their respective mRNA COVID-19 vaccines revisit the negative associations of profit, monopolies, and optics in patent litigation. This exposes some concerns about our patent laws.

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A Typical Eligibility Case in 2023

Patently-O

593 (2010). Ask whether the claimed invention is directed toward a categorical exclusion. If yes, ask whether the claimed invention includes something more, such as an inventive concept that transforms the abstract idea into a patent eligible invention. Kappos , 561 U.S. Prometheus , 566 U.S. 208 (2014).

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

LexBlog IP

The sole driver of the growth in ex parte decisions has been patent-eligibility according to the ‘manner of manufacture’ test under Australian patent law. Since 2010 there have been 115 published decisions on eligibility, with the claims at issue being found ineligible in 100 of those cases.