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Key Points from the USPTO’s New Guidance on AI Use

IP Intelligence

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued guidance on the use of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI, in Intellectual Property (IP) practices involving documents filed at the USPTO. The USPTO begins with a review of the duties of candor and good faith, confidentiality, and export regulations.

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Patent vs. Trade Secrets: Making the Right Choice

Intepat

Organizations must carefully consider to consider these options when protecting their inventions. Trade secrets, while cheaper and without time limits, must be kept confidential. To qualify for a patent, an invention must be novel, non-obvious, and useful. However, this protection is limited to the jurisdiction of filing.

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Here’s What Businesses Need to Know About a Non-Disclosure Agreement

Kashishipr

A Non-Disclosure Agreement (abbreviated as NDA) is a legal document signed to safeguard the previously-mentioned sensitive information. Assisting inventors to protect their patent rights – An NDA should protect the best interests of inventors of new products and technologies, specifically if the invention is publicly disclosed.

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Functional Medical Device Demonstrated at Trade Show Trigged On Sale Bar of pre-AIA 102(b)

LexBlog IP

The Federal Circuit first pointed out that the patented technology was “in public use” because, before the critical date, Minerva disclosed fifteen devices having the technology at AAAGL 2009, an industry related event dubbed “the Super Bowl of [the] industry” by one of the inventors.

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What’s in a Missing Name? Some Questions Around the Covaxin Patent Application

SpicyIP

In this article, Koshy reveals that Bharat Biotech (BBIL) filed a patent application for Covaxin without listing the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) as a co-patentee or inventor. Due to the confidentiality of the BBIL-ICMR agreement, which was not readily accessible, ICMR was unintentionally omitted.

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All About Provisional Patent Applications

Kashishipr

Where it is a public sector entity, like a government initiative or a university, there is often the pressure of publishing and disseminating information at the earliest; whereas the private sector is usually free of such challenges, and major consideration is laid on the nature and value of the researched object or invention.

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Does the Court of Appeal's 2:1 split in Thaler underline the need for legislative review?

The IPKat

The AmeriKat instructing her computer overlord to come up with an invention which turns household objects into tuna Can machines be inventors? Over to Henry : "Background Dr Stephen Thaler is the inventor of an artificial intelligence machine called DABUS. DABUS made inventions. 13 states: "Mention of inventor. (1)