The IPKat

AUGUST 13, 2024

This is perhaps not surprising, given that patent applications are not published until 18 months after they are filed, and that OpenAI's major innovation of ChatGPT was first released about 2 years ago. This year, eleven OpenAI patents and patent applications have been published.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JUNE 1, 2021

Fish principal Michael Portnov was recently interviewed by Corporate Counsel Business Journal for the article, “Staying Ahead of the Artificial. ” In the article, Michael talks about the future of AI and how his degrees in mathematics and physics help to inform his practice in the high-tech patent world.

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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. However, in the patent realm, the USPTO also believes that "inventorship analysis should focus on human contributions, as patents function to incentivize and reward human ingenuity".

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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. However, in this case, it is imperative to note that determining the scope of a patent is not easy. Seeking Patent Protection for the Technology. Overcoming Obstacles . It offers some degree of FTO to everyone.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 9, 2025

Madras High Court and the (Mis-Placed) Judicial Economy: Analysing the Clouds Behind the Silver Lining The Mad HC single bench upheld the dismissal of a patent application but curiously analyzed only one objection from the Controllers dismissal and deemed the rest unnecessary to be evaluated. 3(i) of the Patents Act.

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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. Justice Beach then took the essence of the Australian Patent Act into consideration.

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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. It is safeguarded under the Patent Act, of 1970.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Delhi High Court on Non-filing of Written Submission to Delay Patent Application Process. The Controller of Patents where it rebuked the Plaintiff for not filing written submissions in time and thereby delaying the patent application process. You can find the application form here. Image from here.

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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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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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LexBlog IP

MARCH 18, 2022

On February 28, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“ PTAB ”) issued a decision on priority in an interference proceeding between the Broad Institute, Inc. Patent Application No. The inventors listed on Broad’s patent are Feng Zhang, Ph.D., The Broad Institute, Inc. Interference No. 15/981,807.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The petition at issue relied on AAPA in combination with a patent application to allege obviousness of the challenged claims. On June 1, Director Vidal sua sponte ordered director review to clarify Office guidance on the treatment of AAPA in view of the Qualcomm decision.

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Patently-O

APRIL 25, 2024

Which professors publish in the top journals? We gain insights into the process of inventing and the challenges engineers face in going from having an innovative idea to becoming a named inventor by interviewing thirteen patent professionals and the resulting survey of engineers across various collaborating high-tech firms.

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Intepat

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

One of the most common reasons an invention is rejected from being protected is the existence of prior art, or that the said invention is not novel and has already been, in fact, for some time now. This, in turn, will help you create a stronger patent claim and reduce the number of amendments you might have to make at later stages.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Intellectual Property Rights (“IPR”) law empowers such techno-entrepreneurs to protect their ideas and inventions from misappropriation and encroachment by others, and thereby, enables them to unlock the true potential value of their intellectual property.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 5, 2021

Novelty and non-obviousness are two of the main criteria for patentability. In order to obtain patent protection for an invention, such as a chemical compound, the invention must be novel. Therefore, a derivative of psilocybin that has not been disclosed publicly could qualify as a novel invention.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Conceiving the Invention. The inventor should collect as much information as possible about his invention. The inventor should think about the field of his invention, the advantages of such an invention and if that invention can improve already existing solutions. Patent Search & Drafting.

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Dragons' Den

MARCH 16, 2023

Alan entered the Den with a clever invention (and DIY-ers dream) he has called the Xtra Hand. One of the biggest hurdles faced by Alan when growing his business was that he was not able to get a patent for his invention. Cleaning up in the Den First up was suction expert, Alan Gillett. But is it new?

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Call for Papers: NLU Jodhpur’s Journal of Intellectual Property Studies Vol. VIII, Issue I [Submit by January 7, 2024] NLU Jodhpur’s Journal of Intellectual Property Studies is inviting original, unpublished manuscripts for publication for its upcoming issue. The last date for submissions is January 7, 2024.

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U.S. Department of Commerce

MAY 27, 2021

Below are a few leaders who, through their innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship, have made a significant contribution to the Commerce Department’s mission to drive business expansion and economic growth and accelerate American leadership in research, invention, and innovation. Rabi Prize. More details.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

SpicyIP Tidbits: Clarification on Jurisdiction of High Courts after the Tribunals Reform Act 2021, and Need for Reasoned Orders for Rejecting Patent Applications. Then we discussed the Bombay High Court’s decision to rebuke the Patent Office for dismissing a patent application without providing sufficient reasons for the same.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 7, 2023

We recently came across one such short paper on “ SEP Litigations & Issues in Determining the FRAND License ” published in the September 2023 issue of the Journal of Intellectual Property Rights (see here ) and extended a guest post invitation to its authors to discuss their key arguments.

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IIPRD

JUNE 24, 2024

‘The Paris Convention’, adopted in March 1883 and revised in the years 1900, 1911, 1925, 1934, 1958, 1967, and 1979, comprehensively addresses “patents, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks, service marks, trade names, and geographical indications”. [1] India, Paris Convention and TRIPS.” ‘ Economic and Political Weekly’ 33, no.

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Patently-O

APRIL 16, 2024

Following a bench trial, a district court held the asserted claims of the IBS-D patents to be obvious over two primary prior art references: (1) a clinical trial protocol that had been published on the ClinicalTrials.gov website (“the Protocol”), and (2) a journal article (“Pimentel”).

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SpicyIP

MAY 15, 2023

Madhya Pradesh High Court allows the defendant to file a patent application and directs the Patent Office to hear the plaintiff before considering the defendant’s application. 2 filed for a stay of impugned judgement and decree, which restrains them from using a registered Patent and copyright of Plaintiff/Respondent No.1.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 17, 2023

From conflicting positions on AI as a co-author of a work to the contours of information required u/s 39 about the patent applications filed abroad, we had some engaging posts on this blog this week. Call for Submissions: NALSAR’s Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law (IJIPL) Vol.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2022

patent applications have mimicked the larger investment in AI technologies, AI-related IP disputes have lagged behind consumer adoption. Even at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) – one of the busiest forums for IP disputes – very few cases directly involve AI technologies. A Bloomberg Law article noted that U.S.

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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? Figure 2: 2021 Pending Patent Applications Pre- vs. Post-AIA (Point Estimate).

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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? Figure 2: 2021 Pending Patent Applications Pre- vs. Post-AIA (Point Estimate).

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SpicyIP

JULY 4, 2024

Vandana Parvez vs The Controller of Patents , dealt with a withdrawn patent application that had been wrongfully published and then later cited as prior art for the same applicant’s subsequent patent application! Despite the withdrawal of the appellant’s patent application, it was wrongfully published.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The question of whether it should be possible to name artificial intelligence (AI) code as an inventor on a patent application continues to dog patent offices and courts around the world. The inventor of DABUS, Dr Thaler, claims that his AI invention has extraordinary powers (for a machine).

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Highlights of the Week Part I: Unreasoned Patent Grants and Rejections: Taking a Look at the Division Application Filing Fiasco in the BASF SE Case A Divisional Application (DA) by BASF was rejected by the IPO citing delay in filing of application. 2 in respect of the patent application of the petitioner.

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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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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

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

JUNE 10, 2022

Should copyright protection be given for AI-generated inventions? In 2018, Thaler filed an application to register a copyright for an AI-generated work produced by one of his AI systems, the Creativity Machine. From 2002 to 2018, annual AI patent applications increased from 30,000 to 60,000. The Complaint.

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 10, 2022

Should copyright protection be given for AI-generated inventions? In 2018, Thaler filed an application to register a copyright for an AI-generated work produced by one of his AI systems, the Creativity Machine. From 2002 to 2018, annual AI patent applications increased from 30,000 to 60,000. The Complaint.

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