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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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

” Can you imagine the accolades someone would receive if they contributed to an invention that improves bacon? Well, it turns out that not all contributions count when it comes to being an inventor of a patent for a better method of precooking bacon. Also, Howard was not named as an inventor. The court in Pannu v.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia issued a decision granting a Motion for Summary Judgment for the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and upholding the Office’s view that AI algorithms cannot be listed as inventors on U.S.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Videotron claimed they licensed to avoid litigation, and later realized that Rovi’s portfolio is obsolete. The deciding factors for awarding an ‘accounting for profits’ are as follows: Whether there has been undue delay in commencing or prosecuting the litigation. Whether Rovi practiced the invention of the patent in Canada.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 5, 2021

Commissioner of Patents , case number VID 108 of 2021, in the Federal Court of Australia, an Australian Federal Judge became the first known jurist to rule that inventions developed by artificial intelligence can qualify for patent protection. In Thaler v. And, nothing in the Act dictates the contrary conclusion.

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IP Intelligence

AUGUST 9, 2022

Vidal ruled that an artificial intelligence (AI) system cannot be listed as a named inventor on a patent application, affirming the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and Eastern District of Virginia rulings. He filed two patent applications at the USPTO, listing DABUS as the sole named inventor on both applications.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 9, 2022

Vidal ruled that an artificial intelligence (AI) system cannot be listed as a named inventor on a patent application, affirming the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and Eastern District of Virginia rulings. He filed two patent applications at the USPTO, listing DABUS as the sole named inventor on both applications.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 31, 2023

AI and IP Law: Podcast with Yuri Eliezer by Yuri L. Eliezer AI and Intellectual Property Law An Insightful Discussion with Yuri Eliezer The intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Intellectual Property (IP) Law is becoming increasingly significant in the dynamic landscape of technology and innovation.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 21, 2024

As reported on IPWatchdog, the UK Supreme court recently ruled that a trained neural network (an Artificial Intelligence known as DABUS) could not be listed as the inventor on two patent applications filed by Dr. Stephen Thaler at the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO).

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Patently-O

AUGUST 4, 2021

A world first – South Africa recently made headlines by granting a patent for ‘a food container based on fractal geometry’ to a non-human inventor, namely an artificial intelligence (AI) machine called DABUS. Guest Post by Meshandren Naidoo and Dr. Christian E.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 8, 2024

On January 5, 2024, in litigation between REGENXBIO and Sarepta Therapeutics, Judge Richard Andrews of the U.S. Sarepta argued that the claims of the ’617 Patent are directed to naturally occurring AAV sequences and the inventors’ contribution was only the identification of the naturally occurring sequences. § 101.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

patent application was filed by Moderna, with no NIH scientists listed as inventors. patent application as co-inventors with the Moderna scientists. As a result of the collaboration, a vaccine labeled “mRNA-1273” was created and a U.S. patent application.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 3, 2024

The grounds for the court’s decision was the definition of “inventor” under the Patents Act 1977 (the Act ) which requires the inventor of a patent to be a natural person. The post UK Supreme Court rules on AI and Patent Applications appeared first on Global IP & Technology Law Blog.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 16, 2023

Been too busy to stay up-to-date with the latest IP developments? Patents Image from Pixabay Rose Hughes reflected on the patent applications filed by Dr Thaler, which claim inventions purportedly invented by the AI machine, DABUS. There has been a lot of excitement about whether an AI can be formally designated as an inventor.

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IP Close Up

JANUARY 11, 2022

In the decade since the adoption of the America Invents Act (AIA) patent licensing has become more arduous for many technology companies and independent inventors. Continue reading.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 26, 2022

The Full Court has taken a conventional approach to determining the meaning of the term ‘inventor’ in the Patents Act 1990 , observing (at [83]) that ‘[t]he duty to resolve an issue of statutory construction is a text-based activity’ and that while it is ‘appropriate to consider policy considerations.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 22, 2024

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Tuesday, May 21, issued a precedential decision vacating and remanding a district court’s finding that Core Optical Technologies didn’t have standing to sue Nokia due to the language of a contract between the inventor and his employer. where he worked at the time of the invention.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A patent protects your intangible property from others’ use, but what happens when patent protection operates in a way that ensures no other innovators can build upon a patented invention? When IP and competition clashes, authorities will step in to regulate as demonstrated in a recent dawn raid. Federal Court held in Chemours v.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 15, 2024

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Friday affirmed a district court finding that two inventors should be added as co-inventors to a patent for a method of transporting gaseous fluids.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Other robust evidence shows that current Section 101 law has harmed innovation by removing the incentives to develop and commercialize particular inventions of public importance.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 17, 2022

On April 13, 2022, the Federal Court of Australia, on appeal, reversed its 2021 decision that DABUS, an artificial intelligence (AI) machine, qualified as an inventor for a patent application under Australian law. Thaler has filed patent applications in several countries around the world for inventions created by DABUS.

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IP Close Up

JANUARY 13, 2022

Frederick Shelton IV, arguably the most prolific and financially successful inventors ever, is a Johnson & Johnson medical device innovator unknown to pretty much everyone Continue reading.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 20, 2022

Germany’s Federal Patent Court has set aside a decision by the country’s Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA) that refused a patent application naming an artificial intelligence (AI) as the inventor. Thaler and the inventor as “DABUS - The invention was autonomously generated by an artificial intelligence.”.

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IP Close Up

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The news in much of the inventing community is often doom and gloom, but for Stephen Key, a successful creator and entrepreneur, the opportunities faced Continue reading.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The winds of a busy Belgian court term blows through the IPKat's wild ancestor's mane (c) Christopher Stothers 'Tis the season for a look at the cases that were in 2021 from around Europe and what they mean for the IP litigation themes in those jurisdictions now that the dust has settled in 2022. The decisions we (arbitrarily!)

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IP Close Up

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Members of the IP community – including inventors, content creators, bigtech managers, lawyers and educators – do not agree on some of the most basic Continue reading

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Patent Trademark Blog

MARCH 28, 2022

Many IP law firms appear to be targeting small businesses. Some law firms are more focused on IP litigation while others, such as our firm , are heavily focused on filing patents and trademarks. Despite their marketing efforts, the utility patent cost estimates of many IP firms may be out of reach for many clients.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 11, 2021

To take another example, AI has been generating creative and inventive output for years that, if that output had been made by a person, would be protected by intellectual property rights. Litigation is currently ongoing on these patents in the United States, United Kingdom, EPO (Europe), and Germany.

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Kashishipr

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Having a robust Intellectual Property (IP) portfolio and strategizing well to maintain it can do wonders in enhancing your brand value and market share. However, keep in mind that using your IP assets to support the current and future market position of your business can prove to be a major challenge. Managing the IP Portfolio Well.

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Patently-O

JULY 18, 2024

The court found the claim language itself shows the invention’s focus served the human-organizing purpose of “assist[ing] an investigator in conducting a background investigation,” and the individual claim steps were all focused on information handling at a technically generic level. .” Covalent, Inc. , Iatric Sys.,

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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. Cross-licensing agreements can both restrain and advance competition.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 4, 2022

Lincoln listed the development of patent laws—along with the invention of writing and the discovery of America—among the most important events in world history. Patents have “peculiar value…in facilitating all other inventions and discoveries,” he said in a speech in 1858. What was true a century and a half ago remains true today.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2022

Read the full article on Managing IP. For example, companies pursuing patent protection in both the US and the EU should keep in mind a few key differences between these two jurisdictions to avoid losing valuable IP rights. One joint inventor cannot stop another from independently selling, conveying, assigning, or licensing the patent.

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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. HIP claimed that one of its employees materially contributed to the invention of Hormel’s patent on methods for precooking bacon. Hormel Foods Corp., 2022-1696 (Fed. May 2, 2023).

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IPilogue

MAY 31, 2022

Healthy patent systems can sometimes be described as a way to incentivize creative inventions, encourage building on existing ideas, and avoid frivolous litigation. Patent litigation has been on the rise , with 46% more patent litigation lawsuits in 2021 than in 2018. . Google’s contribution to the US patent system.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 24, 2022

One day after the Senate Judiciary Committee’s IP Subcommittee met to discuss the PTAB Reform Act and other ways to improve the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), the U.S. Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY), who last year introduced a bill that would repeal the PTAB entirely, grilled the witnesses about the effects of the PTAB on U.S.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Today’s was the sixth hearing of the IP Subcommittee this year. The goal of the PREVAIL Act is to reform the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in a number of ways.

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