Patently-O

APRIL 13, 2022

Yes, a corporation may own or license an invention and its resulting patents. And in fact, most patents are owned by non-human persons. But, the law persists in most nations as it has for more than 200 years that patentable inventions must begin with a human person, the inventor. Read mine here ]. 1] Dennis D.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 9, 2022

The encouragement towards innovation is legalized under Intellectual copyrights patents and trademarks Rights are provided by the states around the globe. These rights have the sole purpose and that it so protects and confer the creation or an invention specific to a certain period.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 26, 2022

A principal purpose of the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 was imposing a uniform patent ownership policy on all federal agencies. The Bayh-Dole Act established a uniform policy requiring all agencies to waive invention ownership to those making patentable discoveries with their support.

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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. Previously, IPilogue reported that Australia has granted patent ownership to an AI inventor.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Patent protection may limit access to new ideas and technology and, therefore, raise concerns about disparities in access and stifle the growth of the metaverse as a shared online space. Ethical dimensions of patenting critical Metaverse innovations should be watchful and counter any anti-competitive practice that might arise.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Image: Thomson Reuters In ‘The Artificial Inventor’ ( Thomson Reuters ), Luz Sánchez García (University of Murcia) characterises humanity as standing at the cusp of an ‘Artificial Invention Age’ in which Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer used as a tool but rather a creative partner or independent innovator.

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Patently-O

JULY 7, 2021

I have been following the patent ownership lawsuit of Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Some months later, after leaving and forming 10X, they completed the inventions and filed patent applications. Pre-Invention Innovations Not Captured by Employment Agreement Duty to Assign. See, e.g., AT&T v. 2d 1321 (Fed.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 9, 2021

In this post, I will be analysing the recommendations pertaining to the amendment of patent laws in order to facilitate inventorship and ownership by AI. I will be restricting the discussion to the evaluation of the Indian patent regime, as the implications of AI on Indian copyright law has been previously dealt with here.

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IIPRD

MARCH 13, 2025

With so many IPs available trademarks, patents, copyrights, and more – how can you choose the right one for your work, product, or business? All the creations of the human minds such as designs, inventions, artistic works, names, symbols, etc. It is governed by the Patent Act, 1970. Registration of patent is mandatory.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 11, 2023

By: Linda Liu & Partners

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The headlines are the result of the Project’s filing of parallel applications to patent offices in several jurisdictions over a number of inventions generated by an AI system named DABUS (Device for the Autonomous Boot-strapping of Unified Sentience), invented by Dr Stephen Thaler.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 2, 2021

The Federal Court of Australia on Friday ruled in Thaler v Commissioner of Patents [2021] FCA 879 that an artificial intelligence (AI) system can be an inventor under the Australian Patents Act. The Deputy Commissioner of Patents said that Thaler could not name an inventor because an AI simply cannot be an inventor under the Act.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Recently, AI technology once again exceeded the legal community’s expectations by filing a patent for its invention of interlocking food containers. Under patent law, it is the general expectation that inventors are humans, not robots. Europe, Australia, and South Africa, only Australia and South Africa granted this patent.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

On February 20, 2024, a Brazilian congress member, Antônio Luiz Rodrigues Mano Júnior (known as Júnior Mano), introduced a bill to amend the national IP Statute (Law #9,279/96) and regulate the ownership of inventions generated by artificial intelligence systems.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 26, 2025

They touch upon key emerging issues in AI, including development/training, output generation, transparency obligation, and the authorship and ownership of AI outputs. Rose Hughes also explained the Board of Appeal's decision in T 2130/22 regarding the inventive step of a pharmaceutical formulation.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 26, 2022

2:21-cv-00126-JRG-RSP) (not available on line for free from what I can see) addressed an accused infringer’s argument that the assignment of the patent-in-suit from the sole inventor (Afana) to the plaintiff, Mobile Equity, was ineffective, and so the patentee lacked standing. Walmart (Case No.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 7, 2024

Invention assignment provisions are fundamental in employment agreements. On one hand, they are the mechanism by which an employer takes ownership of important types of intellectual property employees create that relates to the job—potentially patentable inventions, which may be trade secrets unless patent protection is sought.

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IPilogue

JULY 7, 2021

While an employer may have invested significant resources to facilitate the production of an invention and wish to capitalize on their investment, their employee also likely devoted significant time and energy into developing the invention and may feel entitled to benefit from its associated IP. Private Sector Employees.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Moderna recently sued Pfizer alleging patent infringement of three out of eight patents that cover its Covid 19 vaccine (Spikevax). The sheer size of sales and revenue coupled with patent monopolies and the immense potential of the mRNA technology, makes both these entities King-like – rich, supreme and sometimes hypocritical.

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Kashishipr

DECEMBER 8, 2021

It is very important to assess the same, morally, ethically, and legally, in the light of accepted norms laid by the Patent Laws in different major jurisdictions. However, a modified form of life may be considered a patentable subject matter. Whether or not Patents over Life Forms should be Granted?

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IP Watchdog

MAY 15, 2023

For more than 40 years, they’ve been resisting the Bayh-Dole Act’s mandate cutting Washington out of micro-managing the commercialization of federally funded inventions. As a result, few inventions were ever developed. And under the guise of increasing domestic manufacturing, they’re well on their way to reasserting control.

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Patently-O

MAY 15, 2024

as a major turning point in American patent and antitrust law. The Court’s 4-3 decision favored the patentee and allowed the patent owner to place restrictions on the use of its patented product even after sale. Just a few years later, the Supreme Court reversed course in Motion Picture Patents Co.

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Patently-O

JUNE 28, 2023

(Guest Post by Kevin Ahlstrom, Associate General Counsel, Patents, Meta. – Jason) Guided invention sessions not only increase idea submission rates but also transform individuals’ perception of themselves as inventors. At Meta, employees are encouraged to submit patent ideas through an inventor portal.

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IP Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2023

Combine that “mastermind/dominant” author doctrine with the run of cases discussing ownership of software outputs (i.e., Copyright Office (the Office) when it comes to copyright ownership of artificial intelligence (AI) output. the “lion’s share” cases), and we see that the notion of what an “author” even is is highly nuanced.

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IAM Magazine

JULY 20, 2022

IP transactions face difficulties when inventor employees leave a company, raising questions as to whether their inventions are owned by the company. Often, the type of employee and the jurisdiction in question are key factors.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 24, 2023

by Dennis Crouch In 2022, the Federal Circuit held that an invention is only eligible for a US patent if a human conceived of the invention. Thus, no patents for invention wholly conceived by artificial intelligence. Vidal , 43 F.4th 4th 1207 (Fed. PERLMUTTER et al, Docket No. 1:22-cv-01564, Paper No. 16 (D.D.C.

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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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Patently-O

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks , [2023] UKSC 49. In a December 20, 2023 decision, the UK Supreme Court has agreed with American courts that an inventive machine is not deserving of patent rights. Louis seeking to patent a thermal-mug designed by an artificial intelligence machine that he created.

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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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IAM Magazine

JULY 27, 2022

Employees are not necessarily always renumerated for their patented or patentable inventions. Therefore, employers are advised to take a number of steps to avoid disruptive issues over the ownership of intellectual property created by their employees.

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IAM Magazine

JULY 27, 2022

Employees are not necessarily always renumerated for their patented or patentable inventions. Therefore, employers are advised to take a number of steps to avoid disruptive issues over the ownership of intellectual property created by their employees.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 23, 2024

Looking at Traditional Knowledge and Patents: The MHC recently upheld the Controller’s rejection of a patent application for being based on Panchagavya, a form of Traditional Knowledge. It considers whether the known properties of these products have been aggregated in the claimed invention (Para 12).

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 1, 2021

The Report focuses on reviewing the working of the Patents Act since its 2005 amendment that brought the Indian legislation in compliance with the TRIPS Agreement. A significant portion of the Report is dedicated to suggesting changes to the Patents Act, albeit without much justification on why these changes are needed.

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Intepat

JANUARY 15, 2024

Registration at UKIPO The case in question, originating in 2019, presents a groundbreaking legal dilemma: Can an artificial intelligence (AI) system be acknowledged as an inventor for the purposes of patent ownership? At the heart of this case lies a critical examination of the UK Patent Act 1977, specifically Section 13(2).

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 4, 2022

When lawyers talk about “intellectual property law” they usually mean the world of trademarks (names or symbols that identify the source of a product), copyrights (creative works, like paintings, songs, books), or patents (inventions). Sometimes, cultural beliefs and notions of communal ownership can. By: McAfee & Taft

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Patently-O

MAY 22, 2024

by Dennis Crouch In a recent decision, the Federal Circuit vacated a district court’s grant of summary judgment that an inventor, Dr. Mark Core, had automatically assigned a patent associated with his PhD thesis to his then-employer and education funder TRW. Dr. Core conceived of the invention while pursuing a Ph.D. 23-1001 (Fed.

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Intepat

APRIL 4, 2022

Will it affect the patentability of the invention? It is time to think if our ideas are patentable if we share them in the public domain. The Intellectual Property Office grants patents to encourage new technology, development, and scientific research. Therefore, the patent was rejected because it lacked novelty.

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