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Legal Lessons from Holiday Lights: Clarity in Patent Drafting

LexBlog IP

This jolly invention lights up each branch individually, featuring a central bus wire nestled near the trunk, branching into 5 to 10 light circuits, each sporting 10 to 20 bulbs. 7,784,961 Before sledding into the patent’s technicalities, the inventor of this Christmas cheer utilized a lesser-known path under U.S. patent law.

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How long does it take to get a patent in 2021? And what about COVID-19?

TraskBritt Intellectual Property

An applicant secures a patent after successfully prosecuting the patent application at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). When the USPTO believes an application embodies an invention worthy of a patent, the USPTO grants a Notice of Allowance. Patentability Search. COVID Update.

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"Using AI tools to help assess inventive step": A response to the CIPA journal article

The IPKat

The cover article of the May 2024 edition of the CIPA Journal proposed a new test for inventive step using AI. The CIPA journal article proposes to use an AI derived measurement of semantic similarity between the claims and the prior art as a new test for inventive step.

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ChatGPT and Intellectual Property (IP) related Topics

LexBlog IP

The “Chat” in ChatGPT refers to this question-and-answer design, where ChatGPT behaves like a ChatBot. The “GPT” in ChatGPT refers to the type of AI model that ChatGPT is, i.e., a G enerative P re-trained T ransformer. Patents: Inventorship Can an AI, such as ChatGPT, invent? ” 35 U.S.