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

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A world first – South Africa recently made headlines by granting a patent for ‘a food container based on fractal geometry’ to a non-human inventor, namely an artificial intelligence (AI) machine called DABUS. Each of these three jurisdictions found sufficient reasons in these formalities to reject DABUS’ patent applications.

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

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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. In the event, the answer to this question turned on whether or not the applicant (i.e. PDF 998kB] ).

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Legal Lessons from Holiday Lights: Clarity in Patent Drafting

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

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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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Biopiracy In The Pharmaceutical Industry

IP and Legal Filings

Traditional cures for prevalent medical ailments are routinely discovered by these companies, who then commercialize and patent various forms of such remedies for their own advantage. Inventors are granted patent protection in exchange for a societal benefit.

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USPTO ARP Panel Restores MPF Sanity, but Still Rejects Xencor’s Claims

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Even before the decision, biotech -focused patent attorneys have been searching for ways to capture their clients innovations with broad enough coverage. Xencor’s patent application (U.S. Application No. although in both a murine (mouse-derived) version and its humanized form, eculizumab. Eli Lilly & Co. ,

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Bio Piracy Of Pharmaceutical Industry In India

IP and Legal Filings

Traditional cures for prevalent medical ailments are routinely discovered by these companies, who then commercialize and patent various forms of such remedies for their own advantage. Inventors are granted patent protection in exchange for a societal benefit.