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.

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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.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 22, 2022

From their inception, the federal patent laws have embodied a careful balance between the need to promote innovation and the recognition that imitation and refinement through imitation are both necessary to invention itself and the very lifeblood of a competitive economy. ” Compco Corp. ” Id. Hotchkiss v. Greenwood , 11 How.

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IP Intelligence

JULY 19, 2024

In view of these, practitioners must manage AI technologies with a full understanding of the information created using AI; how AI is used, if at all, to interact with USPTO websites; and the details of how AI systems store information. AI also cannot hold a USPTO account or independently access a practitioner’s account.

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