Patently-O

AUGUST 4, 2021

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. Like the ‘conception’ test in American patent law – the object of the test is to determine the identity of the ‘devisor’ of the invention. 275 (2020).

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 31, 2021

1 are defined in an article published in 2020 by the USPTO. The figure below shows the volume of public AI patent applications categorized by AI component in the U.S. from 1990-2018. The eight AI components in FIG. using big data in automated systems).

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 16, 2021

The top four delivery apps saw a year-over-year increase of $3 billion in combined revenues when comparing the second and third quarters of 2019 and 2020. Global revenues in the food delivery sector have doubled between 2017 and 2020 and are expected to reach $97 billion USD by the year 2024.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Therefore, it’s no surprise that the number of takedown requests for this type of content has been rather minimal, averaging between 1 and 3 reports per year between 2018 and 2020. Unavailable For Legal Reasons (Error 451) The HTTP 451 Error code was invented for situations where content is made inaccessible for legal reasons.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

See “Inventing AI, Tracing the diffusion of artificial intelligence with U.S. patents,” Office of the Chief Economist, IP Data Highlights (October 2020). These decisions inform strategies to optimize patent drafting and prosecution for artificial intelligence and machine learning related inventions. Part One can be viewed here.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 7, 2021

Further, the USPTO has issued thousands of inventions that utilize AI. According to a 2020 study titled “AI Trends Based on the Patents Granted by the USPTO”, the total number of AI-related patents granted by the USPTO per year increased from 4,598 in 2008 to 20,639 in 2018.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The Federal Circuit created controversy in 2020 over its application of the Supreme Court’s subject matter eligibility jurisprudence by finding a method of manufacturing an automobile propshaft ineligible for patent protection. The decision confirms that inventions generated by AI are not eligible for patent protection in the United States.

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The IPKat

JULY 13, 2021

In this post, we will do the same for Belgium, but on a yearly basis, and report on a selection of interesting decisions rendered in 2020. The first case is an SPC case in which the concept of “core inventive advance” was discussed in the context of a fixed-dose combination product. leaves more questions open that resolved.

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Patently-O

JULY 28, 2021

Most patents involve two or more joint inventors who all claim to have contributed significantly to the invention. Conception of the invention is typically seen as the critical legal determinant of invention and some courts have written that each joint inventor must have contributed substantially to the conception of the invention.*

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In particular, in this divisional patent Regeneron had attempted to avoid a novelty attack by explicitly disclaiming embodiments of the invention from the claim. Legal background: Undisclosed disclaimers Patent claims generally define the essential features present in the claimed invention.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 17, 2023

The Board of Appeals approach leads them to accept both the novelty and inventive step of a subrange that is very close to that of the prior art, and which has an overlapping technical effect with that of the prior art. The claims were therefore found both novel and inventive.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 4, 2021

As the America Invents Act (AIA) turns 10, patent students across the country may be asking: if the law is already a decade old, why am I spending so much time learning pre-AIA law? We estimate that ~90% of patent litigations initiated in 2020 included a patent with an effective filing date before the AIA transition date of March 16, 2013.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Ironburg Inventions Ltd., 2020-1315, 2020-1315, 2020-1379, 2021 WL 3628664 (Fed. In the recent precedential Federal Circuit decision Valve Corporation v. August 17, 2021), the Federal Circuit ruled on an issue that is not often appealed—whether the Petitioner had authenticated a submitted prior art reference. .

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

See “Inventing AI, Tracing the diffusion of artificial intelligence with U.S. patents,” Office of the Chief Economist, IP Data Highlights (October 2020). These decisions inform strategies to optimize patent drafting and prosecution for artificial intelligence and machine learning related inventions. Part One can be viewed here.

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Erik K Pelton

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Although it was invented a couple of decades ago, ever since the pandemic in 2020 its popularity has boomed. The following is an edited transcript of my video Pickleball: A Boom in Trademark Filings If you haven’t played pickleball yet, you’ve certainly heard about it.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

For the first time since 2020, the Federal Circuit issued an opinion finding claims of a computer-related invention to be eligible. Although designated as non-precedential, the case may signal a key claim feature that the court will look for in future Section 101 cases involving computer-related inventions.

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Patently-O

JULY 17, 2024

As if on cue, the Office has released a new set of updated guidelines – focusing on Artificial Intelligence related inventions and including three new examples. The USPTO continues to be open to issuing patents on AI inventions, including the use of AI. However, there must be a technical solution to a technical problem.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 30, 2023

Back in 2020, USC IP sued Facebook for infringing its U.S. If so, the court proceeds to step two, where it considers whether the claims contain an “inventive concept” sufficient to transform the abstract idea into a patent-eligible application. The arguably pro-patentee Judge Alan Albright served as the district court judge.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The headlines are the result of the Project’s filing of parallel applications to patent offices in several jurisdictions over a number of inventions generated by an AI system named DABUS (Device for the Autonomous Boot-strapping of Unified Sentience), invented by Dr Stephen Thaler.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 10, 2024

If IPR is not understood in technology transfer process, sharing of knowledge and invention faces legal challenges. It has gained momentum in India with the advent of technology transfer and commercialization rules,2020. Before the knowledge or invention is transferred, the owner must make sure they own rights over it.

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Patently-O

MARCH 12, 2022

patents and asks what percentage received a rejection prior to issuance (blue) and what percentage received a Section 101 rejection prior to issuance (issued patents 2015-2020). But, within the art units groups, there is typically no difference between US and Non-US inventions in terms of eligibility rejections.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 4, 2021

As the America Invents Act (AIA) turns 10, patent students across the country may be asking: if the law is already a decade old, why am I spending so much time learning pre-AIA law? We estimate that ~90% of patent litigations initiated in 2020 included a patent with an effective filing date before the AIA transition date of March 16, 2013.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 20, 2022

At the end of 2020, the USPTO published a report finding an exponential increase in the number of patent application filings from 2002 to 2018. In the last quarter of 2020, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) reported that patent filings for Artificial Intelligence (AI) related inventions more than doubled from 2002 to 2018.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 30, 2024

This post attempts to critically analyse the relevance of difference in the purported function of the invention and prior art to determine non-obviousness in identifying the inventive step. ” The invention aimed to simplify the communication of sensor data to applications by converting raw sensor data into lightweight messages.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 28, 2021

2021 saw key decisions on claim supremacy, types of antibody claims, the data threshold for second medical use inventions and the AI inventor debate. ?? 3 Sep 2020) Is it time to move on from the AI inventor debate? (3 3 Sep 2020) Is it time to move on from the AI inventor debate? (2 15 Sep 2021) ??

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The challenged patents both teach a similar claimed invention that is “directed to a poll-based networking system that connects users based on similarities as determined through poll answering and provides real-time results to the users.” ’321 The challenged patents are related and both trace their priority date to U.S. 321 patent col.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 6, 2021

To quickly recap the arguments, AstraZeneca claims that sale of Dapagliflozin violates not one but two of its patents: the genus IN 205147 (IN 147) which expired in October 2020, and the species IN 235625 (IN 625) set to expire in 2023. One invention, two patents? Quite like the order by Shakdher J., Coverage and Disclosure.

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SpicyIP

JULY 22, 2024

The rejection had been based on the invention being “contrary to public order or morality or which causes serious prejudice to human, animal or plant life or health or to the environment” under Section 3(b) of the Indian Patent Act, 1970. Understanding Why the Patent Application Went Up in Flames The patent application (no. Mitra And Co.

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Intepat

APRIL 19, 2023

INTRODUCTION As technology continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace, Computer-Related Inventions (CRIs) have become a crucial component of modern innovation. The Patents Act, 1970, provides for the protection of CRIs, but there has been significant debate over the years regarding the patentability of such inventions in India.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 10, 2022

Patenting software, and inventions related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning, known as computer-implemented inventions (CII) in patent lingo, is a complicated and evolving area. To do this, the computer must be deemed an essential element of the invention. As a result, what remained was an abstract idea (i.e.

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Patently-O

MARCH 26, 2024

The Supreme Court ultimately reversed the lower court’s decision upholding the patent and found instead that Brady’s claimed invention lacked novelty and did not constitute a patentable advance over the prior art. Such an indiscriminate creation of exclusive privileges tends rather to obstruct than to stimulate invention.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The Federal Court adopted a new 3-step framework for assessing patentable subject matter in electronics and computer-implemented inventions. Its applications were for computer-implemented inventions for selecting and displaying colours based on colour harmony and emotion. In step 2, the prohibitions in s.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

AUGUST 25, 2021

See “Inventing AI, Tracing the diffusion of artificial intelligence with U.S. patents,” Office of the Chief Economist, IP Data Highlights (October 2020). These decisions inform strategies to optimize patent drafting and prosecution for artificial intelligence and machine learning related inventions. 2020-005406 (PTAB Feb.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 11, 2023

PatKat has been sceptical about Dr Thaler and his purported inventing machine, DABUS, for some time ( IPKat ). In the pending European DABUS case ( EP4067251 ), DABUS's invention as originally claimed was found to lack novelty in view of 25 year old prior art. Sceptical Kat Has DABUS invented?

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 29, 2023

For example, the 2023 decline reflects a drop in underlying patent filings, R&D, and new invention volume primarily from 2018 to 2020, with most applications pending examination for years before grant.

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The IP Law Blog

APRIL 21, 2022

First, only inventions are patentable. Second, only certain inventions are patentable. Four types of inventions are patentable: articles of manufacture, machines, processes, and compositions of matter. These four types of inventions are referred to as patent-eligible subject matter. Not everything is patentable.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 22, 2022

This second part continues where that post left off, and brings us analysis on whether or not, for the purposes of maintaining a divisional application, there must be a plurality of inventions in the claims of the parent application. When can/not a Patent Application be Divided? Part II: Claims & Pluralities. Author: Amit Tailor.

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