JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Artificial intelligence is transforming drug design — but it could also disrupt intellectual property law. To realize AI’s full promise, the US may have to reconsider its approach to issuing patents. By: Goodwin

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In July 2021, the Federal Court of Australia affirmed in Thaler v Commissioner of Patents [2021] FCA 879 that artificial intelligence (AI) systems may be deemed “inventors” under Australian patent law. found in paragraph 10 of the Thaler decision: “First, an inventor is an agent noun; an agent can be a person or thing that invents.

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IIPRD

MAY 9, 2024

This has led to the introduction of intellectual property rights which are a set of exclusionary rights as it excludes the world from enjoying a set of rights arising out an invention or creation, except the inventor or creator. College: LC-1, Faculty of Law, Delhi University [1] The Patents Act, 1970, No.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 28, 2023

Nigerians have been making an impact in the world through creativity and innovation and there’s no end in sight, with the backing of intellectual property laws such as the Copyright Act 2022, which continue to provide avenues for accelerating innovation and creativity. By: Dentons

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

USPTO, EPO, and Precedent- As some readers may recall, the increasing efficacy and ubiquity of artificial intelligence has instigated philosophical and legal debate concerning whether an artificial intelligence may itself be considered the inventor of an innovation it has generated. By: Caldwell Intellectual Property Law

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IIPRD

JANUARY 7, 2025

One of the main areas of intellectual property law development is the link between artificial intelligence and intellectual property rights (IPRs). Growing AI-related business activity, early case law, and legislative and international policy activities are making it more and more relevant in practice.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Inventors and patent attorneys often face the challenge of effectively protecting new AI technology development. The rule of thumb is to focus the patent protection on what the inventors improve over the conventional technology. AI technology is complex and includes different parts across different fields.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2021

A recent court decision on whether an AI system can be named an inventor in a patent application provides a compelling reason for stakeholders in the artificial intelligence industry to respond to the request. The question of whether an AI system can be an inventor is now expected to proceed to the Federal Circuit. In Thaler v.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Overall, AI is increasingly used in biotechnology, however biotechnology AI patenting is diffusing across all technologies, owners, and inventor-patentees. Nicholas Pairolero, Research Economist, USPTO provided an informative landscape of AI in Biotech.

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The IPKat

MARCH 24, 2025

Super kids Seven-year-old named Callie from Manchester won the Kids Invent Stuff and Taskmaster Education Competition supported by the UK's Intellectual Property Office. The competition coincided with Science Week and involved 1,600 inventors aged 4-11 creating solutions to problems.

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IPilogue

JUNE 2, 2022

Reversing what seemed like a victory for supporters of AI-owned intellectual property, the full bench of the Federal Court of Australia has confirmed the majority view of the world: only human inventors can own patent rights to their creations. What Does This Mean in the Canadian Context? In Apotex Inc v Wellcome Foundation.,

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IP Watchdog

MAY 17, 2023

And the similarly savory subject of who must be named inventor on a bacon patent was the issue in the recent case of HIP, Inc. The question of what makes one an “inventor” was central to whether HIP’s employee should be added to the patent. Hormel Foods Corp., 2022-1696 (Fed. May 2, 2023). While AI did not factor into HIP v.

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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.” Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for IP and USPTO Director No. 2022-1548, (Fed. the contrast drawn between “holding modules” and “storage [elements]” in [4.]

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 8, 2024

I attended these yearly meetings typically on behalf of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), though occasionally as a representative of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA).

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JULY 26, 2023

Background Hormel Foods appealed the District Court’s ruling that David Howard should be added as a joint inventor on its patents. Standard of Review “Inventorship is a question of law that [the Federal Circuit] review[s] without deference.” The Federal Circuit “review[s] facts underlying inventorship for clear error.”

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 11, 2025

The public domain is a necessary and organic component of intellectual property law: only certain intellectual assets may, because they are original or new, be appropriated. This leaves a vast area of unprotected elements that are necessary to creators, inventors, scientists and businesses.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Reasoning To establish actual reduction to practice before the filing date of the ’355 patent, it must be shown that “(1) [the inventors] constructed an embodiment or performed a process that met all the limitations of the [claimed invention]; and (2) [the inventors] determined that the invention would work for its intended purpose.”

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 29, 2024

student at National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. He is interested in Intellectual Property Laws and the dynamic intersection of law and technology, and seeks to pursue a career in academia and research. Only after the party alleging makes out its case, the burden of proof shifts on the inventor.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 11, 2021

Trade secret law has become the protection of choice over patent law for recipes in the food industry because a trade secret can grant proprietary rights in perpetuity while a patent only lasts for 20 years. In addition, a trade secret remains an enigma while a patent requires the inventor to actually describe how his invention works.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

16/524,350 (“DABUS”) , the Applicant attempted to claim a machine as the inventor of a patent application. For example, the application data sheet (ADS) cited a single inventor “DABUS” as the given name and “(Invention generated by artificial intelligence)” as the family name. In In re Appl. The Assignee was listed as “Stephen L.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 16, 2024

*prepared with the assistance of artificial intelligence - In the rapidly evolving landscape of intellectual property law, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a powerful tool for attorneys and inventors alike.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 13, 2021

Abbott examines this concept in four legal areas: tax, torts, criminal, and intellectual property law. The section on intellectual property (IP) is particularly intriguing in light of recent events. On July 29, 2021 South Africa approved a patent listing AI as the inventor.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The transition to a first inventor to file system was needed to harmonize the U.S. The establishment of the first regional offices of the USPTO made our intellectual property system more accessible to all, and of course, prioritized examination, allowing inventors to accelerate the examination of certain patents, makes business sense. .

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Kashishipr

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

To be specific, market research performed before filing a Patent Application or after obtaining Patent Protection may help an inventor or innovator significantly in examining the business environment for his invention or innovation. It will also enable the applicant to examine the expansion opportunities in his industry or domain.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MAY 22, 2023

The Supreme Court responded that Federal Circuit correctly applied statutory enablement standard – “the more a party claims for itself the more it must enable,” which reflect Congress’s judgment that if an inventor claims a lot, but enables only a little, the public does not receive its benefit of the bargain.

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IPilogue

JUNE 29, 2022

The Haberman Feeder , named after its inventor Mandy Haberman, is a specialty bottle which uses a slit valve and is especially useful for feeding babies with feeding difficulties. Over the years, the lectures have been delivered by distinguished experts from across the globe. You can watch UCL’s full recording of the lecture here:

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Inventors and patent practitioners filing patent applications before U.S. But the rise of generative AI is changing how we invent: it is becoming increasingly prevalent that inventions are now generated in a collaboration between human inventors and AI systems that together develop novel solutions to problems. 101 and 115.

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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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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 1, 2024

founded in 1993 is a full service Intellectual Property firm manned with professionals in and specializes in the practice of Intellectual Property Laws including Patents, Trademarks, Industrial Designs, Copyright, Trade secrets. About Our Exclusive Knowledge Partner S. Majumdar & Co.,

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 9, 2022

The Court’s denial of opportunities to clarify this issue has caused American inventors to unreasonably weigh the risk of disclosing their inventions against the uncertainty of acquiring a patent. The purpose of the patent system is to provide economic incentive for inventors to disclose their knowledge to the public sphere.

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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

AUGUST 2, 2023

Instead of showing that de Gennes was pertinent to the problem faced by the inventor of the challenged patent, Mylan argued that de Gennes constituted analogous art because it was pertinent to a problem faced by the Burren reference. In determining whether a reference is analogous, the reference must be compared to the challenged patent.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

Thus, a legal safeguard should be provided to inventors for their inventions to keep their interest in science alive. In modern biology research, inventors come from various disciplines such as pharmaceutical, environmental, agricultural, and dairy, and all of them are involved in improving the quality of life.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In October 1996, the provisional application to which the ’094 patent claims priority was filed and the two inventors of the ’094 patent assigned their rights in the invention to USF. By December 1996, the two inventors of the ’094 patent changed their employer from USF to Mayo Clinic.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 14, 2024

Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) recent Request for Comments (RFC) on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) highlights a critical juncture in intellectual property law—evaluating the impact of generative AI (GenAI) on the non-obviousness standard.

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Chicago IP

APRIL 25, 2022

CT, the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago (“IPLAC”) and the Illinois Intellectual Property Alliance (“ILIPA”) will host World IP Day 2022. On Tuesday, April 26, 2022 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

US In the US, the debate centres on the legal implications of AI's capabilities and its impact on intellectual property law, including in relation to patentability. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and courts traditionally assess patentability based on the expertise of PHOSITA ( 35 U.S.

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