LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

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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Patently-O

AUGUST 4, 2021

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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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 21, 2023

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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Patently-O

MARCH 26, 2024

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 Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 3, 2023

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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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 5, 2022

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. Cases of Biopiracy in the Pharmaceutical industry.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 5, 2022

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. Cases of Bio piracy in the Pharmaceutical industry.

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