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Mishandled Disclosures: A Greek Tragedy in IP Law

Patently-O

According to the complaint [ SDNY-1-24-cv-04156-1 ], in 2020 Neuropublic retained Ladas & Parry to assess the patentability of its innovative “telemeter station” technology for the agriculture industry. “Neuropublic’s Proposed Invention Disclosure has been otherwise confidentially maintained and protected in Greek.”

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Spilling Secrets to AI: Does Chatting with ChatGPT Unleash Trade Secret or Invention Disclosure Dilemmas?

Trading Secrets

Although ChatGPT does not currently train on user data (its last training session was in 2021), its data policy for non-API access says it may use submitted data to improve its AI models. However, the data was shared without confidentiality obligations and might be used for future training, so it could be considered public.

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Around the IP Blogs

The IPKat

A Kat being extra careful while Mercury is retrograde Copyright SpicyIP analysed a recent decision from the Bombay High Court, in which it was decided that ideas cannot be copyrighted but can be protected through the application of confidentiality law. Since the pandemic started, 5,070 global patent applications have been published.

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Spilling Secrets to AI: Does Chatting with ChatGPT Unleash Trade Secret or Invention Disclosure Dilemmas?

LexBlog IP

Although ChatGPT does not currently train on user data (its last training session was in 2021), its data policy for non-API access says it may use submitted data to improve its AI models. However, the data was shared without confidentiality obligations and might be used for future training, so it could be considered public.

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Spilling Secrets to AI: Does Chatting with ChatGPT Unleash Trade Secret or Invention Disclosure Dilemmas?

LexBlog IP

Although ChatGPT does not currently train on user data (its last training session was in 2021), its data policy for non-API access says it may use submitted data to improve its AI models. However, the data was shared without confidentiality obligations and might be used for future training, so it could be considered public.

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Curiosity Killed A Motion to Dismiss: A Biotech Company’s Business Negotiations Turns into a Trade Secrets Fight

LexBlog IP

ABL alleged that Zolezzi misappropriated more than 90 confidential and proprietary files. The files included ABL’s detailed business plans and documents disclosing ABL’s scientific testing results, experimental designs, patent applications, formulations, manufacturing processes, and marketing strategies.

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Trade Secret vs. Patent – a False Dichotomy

LexBlog IP

Protecting the intellectual property embodied in an innovative product is often viewed as a choice between trade secret or patent protection, but these types of protection are not invariably mutually exclusive. 9, 2021), 2021 WL 3482921. One may use both, as made clear in the recent Seventh-Circuit case Life Spine , Inc.

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