IP Watchdog

JULY 29, 2021

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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Patently-O

OCTOBER 4, 2021

New Patently-O Law Journal article by Colleen V. As the America Invents Act (AIA) turns 10, patent students across the country may be asking: if the law is already a decade old, why am I spending so much time learning pre-AIA law? Patent System Through November 2020 , 2021 PatentlyO Law Journal 27 (2021) ( Shine.2021.COVID-19Impact).

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 19, 2024

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.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Read the full article in The National Law Journal. Several Senate bills have been proposed over the last year to enact changes to the America Invents Act relating to post-grant practice before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. PDF copy available. Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal. The Bills: The Who, What, and When.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 1, 2021

Commentary and Journal Articles: Atty. Aaron Wininger: China’s Supreme People’s Court Rules Utility Model Patent Unenforceable if Corresponding Invention Patent Application Fails to Grants (Source: The National Law Review). Fred Lambert: Tesla Discloses Cybertruck Design Influences in Fascinating New Patent (Source: Electrek).

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The IPKat

JULY 30, 2024

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 USPTO's guiding principles for AI-assisted inventions The Federal Circuit in Thaler v. Vidal ( 43 F.4th 4th 1207, 1213 (Fed.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

However, despite the global attention on the so-called "AI inventor" patent applications, we are no nearer to understanding how the AI ("DABUS") actually goes about the process of inventing, or even if it can be said to really invent at all. So DABUS can not only invent, but has feelings and sentience?

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The appellant argued the order was non-speaking, and ignored amended claims, written submissions, and evidence distinguishing its invention from prior art. The appellant argued the order was non-speaking, and ignored amended claims, written submissions, and evidence distinguishing its invention from prior art.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Lastly, it is doubtful that its operations would lead to market disruptions in journalism. However, the author believes that technological progress warrants a preference for the permissionless innovation principle over the precautionary pursuit of every breakthrough invention in an increasingly evolving digital landscape.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 15, 2024

INTRODUCTION To identify the role of public funded research in the pharmaceutical industry one has to first determine the problems faced by the public in accessing these inventions and the level of patenting activities in the public funded research institutions in the pharmaceutical sector.

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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

As well as publishing ten science journals, The Royal Society provides science advice to government, awards research grants, promotes public understanding of science and works with schools and colleges to improve science education. RLSC is the most widely adopted, community-led market solution to support OA agreements.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 9, 2025

Other Posts Call for Submissions: Indian Journal of Law and Technology [Volume 21] and IJLT Blog (Submissions on Rolling Basis) NLSIUs Indian Journal of Law and Technology (IJLT) is inviting submissions for Volume 21 of the Journal and the IJLT Blog, on a rolling basis. 3(i) of the Patents Act.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The Indian Navy has a rich history and has undergone significant developments in terms of research and inventions. The design was filed on 10/03/2022 and was subsequently accepted and published in the Journal of the Patent Office numbered 21/2023 on May 26th, 2023. from debris, dust, splashes to sudden exposure to heat and flames.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 18, 2025

The Journal of Law, Market & Innovation (JLMI), a joint initiative of the Turin Observatory on Economic Law and Innovation and the Master s in International Trade Law, is calling for papers for its third issue, which will be dedicated to Regulatory Initiatives on Ecodesign and Sustainable Products. Further details here.

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IIPRD

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The legal frameworks surrounding IP, including the patents, trademarks, copyrights, and business enigmas bargain the startups the aptitude to protect their intellectual assets, ensuring their thoughts and the inventions are lawfully saved from unlawful use or imitation. The inventions of any startups are protected through the Copyright laws.

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Kashishipr

DECEMBER 28, 2021

To be specific, any aspect of the invention not covered in the claims isn’t considered to be protected. Inventing Around the Invention – It usually involves doing some R&D for making some changes to a process or product so as to avoid infringing upon the patent or patents owned by others in the market.

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Trading Secrets

APRIL 18, 2023

In our AI-driven world, we might rephrase it as: If we share our secrets with an AI language model like ChatGPT, but the information remains unused, does it count as trade secret disclosure or public disclosure of an invention? Spoiler alert: sharing invention details with ChatGPT does not count as public use or on sale. enablement).

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Recent Federal Circuit decisions call into question the value of patents broadly claiming inventions on antibodies and their function in treating debilitating diseases. Two are journal publications from the mid-1990s (and predating Teva’s patent filings, circa 2005). In Teva Pharmaceuticals Int’l GmbH v. Kite Pharma, Inc.

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SpicyIP

JULY 4, 2024

A brief into the facts of the case: This is an appeal for challenging the rejection of a patent application for an invention titled “Method and System for Providing Effective Generation and Delivery of Interactive Online Digital Content”. Section 29(2)(a) of the Indian Patents Act, 1970 , includes an element of “consent.”

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 18, 2023

In our AI-driven world, we might rephrase it as: If we share our secrets with an AI language model like ChatGPT, but the information remains unused, does it count as trade secret disclosure or public disclosure of an invention? Spoiler alert: sharing invention details with ChatGPT does not count as public use or on sale. enablement).

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 7, 2022

further proposes the introduction of a compulsory licensing mechanism for computer programs and databases, giving the government the “rights to an invention, utility model, industrial design in relation to computer programs, databases, topologies of integrated circuits.” Other Proposals To Remove Liability for IP Offenses.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 13, 2024

Further reading Artificial intelligence is not breaking patent law: EPO publishes DABUS decision (J 8/20) (July 2022) Bad cases make bad law: Has DABUS "the AI inventor" actually invented anything? A closer look at the USPTO Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions (July 2024) New USPTO Guidance on the use of AI in precision medicine (Aug 2024)

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Patently-O

JANUARY 10, 2023

New Patently-O Law Journal article by David Boundy , a partner at Potomac Law Group, PLLC. Read : David Boundy, What Every Patent and Trademark Lawyer Should Understand About the MPEP, TMEP, and Other Guidance: How to Use (and Defend Against) the MPEP to be a Better Advocate , 2023 Patently-O Patent Law Journal 1 (2023) ( Boundy.2021.HowToUseGuidance

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 18, 2021

Thus, it would be right to say that AIs are ever evolving and can think of new inventions without any human input per se. Subsequently, this could pave the way to drastic reformations in patent laws to accommodate AIs and AI inventions. In sum, DABUS is an AI that is capable of creating inventions with the help of machine learning.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

San Diego Business Journal (SDBJ) recently named Fish & Richardson Principal Michael Amon and Associate Crystal Culhane, Ph.D. , has established herself as a go-to attorney for pharmaceutical, chemistry, biotechnology, and nanotechnology clients who depend on her to help bring their life-saving drugs and inventions to market.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The appellant contended that its invention of “cryptography on a simplified elliptical curve” is patentable since it shows both a technical contribution and a useful application. It held that the trademark should first be published in the trademark journal and oppositions can then be decided on merits, in accordance with law.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The implementation of the America Invents Act in 2012 significantly changed patent practice in the United States, in part by creating an avenue to challenge a patent’s validity at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) without enduring the time and expense of district court litigation. PDF copy available. All rights reserved.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Tiffany Wang is an IPilogue Writer, Intellectual Property Journal Editor, and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. . . Intellectual property falls into the category of “intellectual assets”, including inventions, technologies, brands, software, designs, and process, among others. Photo by Olga DeLawrence ( Unsplash ).

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 18, 2023

In our AI-driven world, we might rephrase it as: If we share our secrets with an AI language model like ChatGPT, but the information remains unused, does it count as trade secret disclosure or public disclosure of an invention? Spoiler alert: sharing invention details with ChatGPT does not count as public use or on sale. enablement).

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

The recent decision of the English High Court in Bayer v Teva [2021] EWHC 2690 (Pat) is another example in which the UK courts have found a pharmaceutical invention to be the obvious outcome of routine drug development. The patent itself will always be evidence in the back of everyone's mind that the invention was tried.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

APRIL 26, 2021

For World IP Day, Fish Principal and chair of Fish’s Diversity & Inclusion Initiative , Ahmed Davis , authored the article “Celebrating Black Inventors on World IP Day” for the National Law Journal, which celebrates the contributions of Black inventors who all too often get overlooked. Elijah McCoy held over 50 patents.

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Chicago-Kent Intellectual Property Journal Blog

JANUARY 20, 2023

Written by Cassidy Aranda Introduction This article focuses on the incredible inventions made by women of color. Everyone involved in the Intellectual Property (IP) field has a responsibility to understand how intersectional issues affect everyone.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The situation has increased in complexity now that not only the input but also the output of Large Language Models (or LLMs) has allowed AI machines to produce potentially patentable inventions and content that looks like literary and artistic material that, in certain cases at least, a human author could have created. and Mazur, J.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The issues the Director will consider on review are: What actions the Director, and by delegation the Board, should take when faced with evidence of abuse of process or conduct that otherwise thwarts, as opposed to advances, the goals of the Office and/or the America Invents Act (AIA); and.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Defensive protection strategies may also include documenting traditional medical knowledge systems in order to oppose or invalidate patents that claim inventions which root from such systems. In recent years, there has been a stark increase in the number of patents that are issued for Ayurvedic inventions on a global level.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 4, 2024

Updated Guidance for AI inventions: Step 2A, Prong 1 Prong 1 of Step 2A asks whether the claim in question is directed to "a judicial exception". The Guidance first notes that claims to AI inventions will often involve "abstract ideas" such as mathematical concepts, methods of organising human activity or mental processes.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Call for Blog Posts: NLSIU’s Indian Journal of International Economic Law Blog [Submission on rolling basis]. We informed our readers about the call for blogpost submissions for NLSIU’s Indian Journal of International Economic Law Blog. Travel and accommodation shall be arranged by the organizers through scholarships.

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