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Logical Fallacy in Patent Law: Analysing Abolkheir’s Challenge to the Soundness of Non-obviousness Test

SpicyIP

In his recent work published in the Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice , Dr. Mo Abolkheir argues that the prevailing interpretation of ‘inventive steps’ places emphasis on the inventor’s imaginative capacity rather than the invention itself. It confuses ‘invention’ with ‘person.’

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Impact of AI on Global IP Systems

IIPRD

AI and the Global IP System We need a worldwide intellectual property (IP) structure that encourages innovation and invention if we are to benefit from generative AI. Specifically, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have opened up new avenues for invention that only minimally entail human intervention.

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When is the inventor of an AI model also an inventor of the model's output? A closer look at the USPTO Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions

The IPKat

According to the USPTO guidance for AI-assisted inventions , AI has the potential to solve some of society's most difficult challenges. How then are AI-generated inventions to be protected? The natural person can then be named an inventor on the patent application.

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DABUS Gets Its First Patent in South Africa Under Formalities Examination

IP Watchdog

South Africa’s patent office has granted the first patent for an invention conceived by an artificial intelligence (AI) inventor, DABUS. The notice of issuance was published in the July 2021 Patent Journal. .

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Guest Post: DABUS Gains Traction: South Africa Becomes First Country to Recognize AI-Invented Patent

Patently-O

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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Guest post by Profs. Chien and Grennan: Unpacking the Innovator-Inventor Gap: Evidence from Engineers

Patently-O

Which professors publish in the top journals? And which innovators become inventors? This call is motivated by the observation that while women comprise 35% of the STEM workforce, they make up only 13% of inventors; Black professionals represent 9% of STEM workers but only 1.2% of inventors.

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Navigating the Patent Maze: Challenges and Controversies in Emerging Technologies

IP and Legal Filings

Many courts tried to determine whether a software invention is abstract by devising several tests to determine whether any invention related to computers might be patentable. In the instant case the term inventive step was stretched over the economic value of the inventive. In Bishwanath Prasad Radhey Shyam v.