Copyright Alliance

APRIL 25, 2023

The World Intellectual Property Organization is celebrating World IP Day 2023 with the theme Women and IP: Accelerating Innovation and Creativity honoring the pioneering and innovative spirit of women inventors, […] The post The Impactful Leadership of Women Registers of Copyrights (World IP Day 2023) appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Under a first-to-invent system, the first person to come up with an invention has “priority” and is entitled to a patent even if there was an earlier filed patent application from a different inventor covering the same invention.

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Patently-O

APRIL 26, 2023

Though the patent system exists to promote innovation, it also serves to promote inventors and innovators. For more visit, For more stories, and to add your own story , visit the “Inventor’s Diary” at www.diversitypilots.org. What did becoming an inventor mean to you? ” – Sujesha S., ” – Scott S.,

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The IPKat

JULY 30, 2024

The natural person can then be named an inventor on the patent application. Of more practical consequence, the legal test provided in the Guidance for determining whether the inventors of a particular AI system should also be considered inventors of its output, remains open to interpretation.

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Intepat

JANUARY 15, 2024

Registration at UKIPO The case in question, originating in 2019, presents a groundbreaking legal dilemma: Can an artificial intelligence (AI) system be acknowledged as an inventor for the purposes of patent ownership? Uniquely, he declared that he was not the inventor; instead, he attributed the creations to his AI system named DABUS.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 8, 2024

The United Kingdom Supreme Court (the ultimate appeal level in the UK legal system) has ruled in a decision of 20 December 2023 that an artificial intelligence (“AI”) system cannot be identified in a patent application as the inventor. By: Dorsey & Whitney LLP

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IIPRD

JANUARY 7, 2025

But it’s now evident that AI is capable of producing inventions on its own, and there have been multiple documented instances of patent applications where the person applying for a patent has recognized AI as the inventor. If such products were created by a human inventor, they could be eligible for patent protection.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 14, 2025

According to the report, AI-related patent applications are up 33% since 2018 and appeared in 60% of all technology subclasses in 2023.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 4, 2024

In Thaler v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks [2023] UKSC 49, the UK Supreme Court ruled that AI cannot be an ‘inventor’ for the purposes of UK patent law.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The UK Supreme Court has today handed down its decision Thaler v Comptroller [2023] UKSC 49. The outcome of this appeal turned on three issues: Issue 1 is the scope and meaning of ‘inventor’ in the 1977 Act. The judgment under appeal by the Court of Appeal was reported here.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JULY 25, 2023

Background Blue Gentian is an assignee of Berardi’s six patents involving a collapsible hose, where Berardi is the named inventor. The district court ordered correction of the inventorship for the six patents holding that Ragner should have been a named co-inventor for all of the asserted patents.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

According to the Federal Circuit, ODP is a judicially created doctrine with a purpose to prevent an inventor from securing a second, later-expiring patent for non-distinct claims. There is nothing in the PTA statute to suggest that application of ODP to the PTA-extended patent term would be contrary to the congressional design.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 22, 2023

This week, the UK supreme court finally rejected the appeal by Dr Thaler to have DABUS named as an inventor on a patent application. Bad cases make bad law: Has DABUS "the AI inventor" actually invented anything? 25 sequence listing added to the pages of a divisional has now been issued ( OJ EPO 2023, A98 ). Looking beyond ST.26:

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 4, 2023

While the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit made clear this year that only humans can be inventors and that an AI program itself cannot obtain a patent (see our prior coverage of Thaler v. Vidal ), this in no way means that AI-assisted inventions are not patentable. By: MoFo Tech

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

On May 2, 2023, the U.S. that reversed a district court’s decision to grant plaintiff’s request to have their employee listed as an inventor, finding that HIP employee David Howard’s alleged contribution to U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a precedential opinion in HIP, Inc. Hormel Foods Corp.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

showed the intention of the ‘551 Patent’s inventor to define “storage elements” as “systems that store non-negligible amounts of energy from an input EM signal.” 2023) as a recent example where it reversed the Board’s exclusion of reply brief arguments addressing a newly raised claim construction. Katherin K. 2022-1548, (Fed.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 27, 2023

On 20 December 2023 the UK Supreme Court handed down its judgment in the long-running saga of the DABUS patent applications in the United Kingdom.

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Olartemoure Blog

JUNE 23, 2023

Finally, it should be noted that the registration form will be available until August 31, 2023 and can only be filled out through the link provided by SIC. La entrada Inventor Awards in Colombia se publicó primero en OlarteMoure | Intellectual Property.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 2, 2024

Most inventors can attest to the surprise they felt upon learning that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) likely will not respond to their first patent application for a couple of years after filing.

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IP Tech Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

Every year, on April 26, intellectual property organizations around the world observe “ World IP Day ” – an event established by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to raise awareness of patents, copyrights, designs, and trademarks, and to celebrate the creativity and contributions of inventors, authors, artists and entrepreneurs.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Microsoft on Monday February 6, 2023, and the CAFC issued its opinion in the case this past Thursday. Big Tech multinational acted on behalf of a China-controlled multinational to invalidate the patents of a small American inventor, thus clearing the way into the U.S. I attended the hearing at the U.S. This case has curious origins.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

While the true value of a technological advance develops over time, the following selection of patents of 2023 represent meaningful advances in several emerging areas of technology. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) tell the story of society’s innovative future.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

As for the objective indicia, the Federal Circuit affirmed that the trial record established the presence of unexpected results, including testimony from a researcher listed as an inventor on the ’638 patent, stating that they did not expect a 20-fold difference in potency between apremilast alone and the apremilast containing racemic mixture.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 8, 2023

The recent High Court decision in Ensygnia v Shell ( [2023] EWHC 1495 (Pat) ) is highly relevant to the ongoing controversy of claim interpretation and description amendments ( IPKat ). The Deputy Judge looked to the description and the inventor's purpose to understand how the term "sign" should be understood.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 5, 2024

On November 22, 2023, United States Magistrate Judge Victoria Reznik (S.D.N.Y.) Judge Reznik explained that the attorney-client privilege belonged to the assignee and not the inventor. provided some rare insight into “the applicability and scope of the attorney-client privilege as it relates to patent counsel.”

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Olartemoure Blog

JULY 21, 2023

MULTI-CHANNEL BRAIN OR CORTICAL ACTIVITY MONITORING AND METHOD US 11,553,869 B1 Inventors: Stéphane Bibian, Tatjana Zikov Assignee: NeuroWave Systems Inc. SYSTEM FOR VARIABLY CONFIGURABLE, ADAPTABLE ELECTRODE ARRAYS AND SOFTWARE US 11,633,595 B2 Inventor: Michael P. Date of Patent: Jan. Weisend Assignee: STIMSCIENCE INC.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 10, 2023

A little over halfway through 2023, and nearing the end of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB’s) fiscal year, we can take stock of an administrative body that is settling into a decade of precedent while big changes still loom.

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IP Close Up

JANUARY 3, 2024

IP CloseUp, weekly perspective on intellectual property trends and business, broke through 392,000 views and 272,000 visits in 2023, on its way to 400,000 plus Continue reading

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

As 2023 commences, it’s time for companies to review and take stock of their intellectual property assets. An inventor must secure a patent application within a very short period of time to prevent the work from falling into the public domain. Intellectual property is a company asset, just like inventory.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MAY 22, 2023

On May 18, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a unanimous decision in the case of Amgen Inc. Sanofi, et al. , 112(a), and are thus invalid. The Supreme Court further noted that Amgen’s specifications offered the POSITA little more than advice to engage in trial and error.

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Patently-O

APRIL 25, 2023

The following are my remarks given on April 25, 2023 to the USPTO as part of their AI listening session: by Dennis Crouch Members of the USPTO, and fellow participants of this AI Listening Session, thank you for inviting me here today and for taking time to consider these important issues.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Attention, inventors, in-house counsel, and anyone with a vested interest in the world of intellectual property: the USPTO just issued its final rule for patent fees. This is a follow-up to the 2023 proposal—but with a slightly softer landing. By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Responses to this request are due by this Thursday, February 2, 2023. Patent owners, especially small businesses and independent inventors, need two things of the patent system: 1) Reliability/believability. We need patents that are respected when they are issued. We do not want any doubt about their validity. 2) Flexibility.

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IP Close Up

JUNE 13, 2023

Videos of the five panels and keynote from the 2023 Intellectual Property Awareness Summit – including Andrei Iancu’s compelling analysis of the power of IP Continue reading

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

Most of these fee reductions have an effective date of March 22, 2023, with the remaining ones effective as of April 1, 2023. However, the cost of obtaining and maintaining patents may be a barrier for individual inventors and small businesses to benefit from the advantage or enter certain markets.

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The IPKat

MAY 18, 2022

These documents include a refreshed corporate strategy outlining its ambitions up to 2026, as well as its corporate priorities for t 2022 - 2023, outlining its first steps towards achieving these priorities. Our partners and people will be essential travelling companions for achieving success with our goals.

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Barry Sookman

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Recent decisions in both the patent and copyright fields have denied protection for otherwise patentable inventions and copyright works where the sole claimed inventor or author is identified as an artificial intelligence system. … The post Do generative AI inventions and works qualify for patents and copyrights?

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