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Bullying and Clinical Depression Could Not Keep this ‘Shark Tank’ Inventor from Succeeding

IP Close Up

Uncanny communications and people skills have enabled him to connect and succeed both as an inventor Continue reading Akeem Shannon is not the typical ‘Shark Tank’ contestant.

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How Litigation Funding Allows Small Companies to Invest in Innovation Instead of Lawyers

IP Watchdog

The story is every inventor's nightmare: A small innovative company develops a breakthrough technology. A much larger company takes notice. Shortly thereafter, it launches a suspiciously similar product. I understand this story well,because I lived it as General Counsel of SilcoTek, a small technology company.

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Misleading Bloomberg Law Post Claims IP Litigation Finance is for Investors, Not Inventors

IP Close Up

Opinions run hot and facts loose when it comes to describing providers of litigation capital, especially if the funds are used in support of plaintiffs Continue reading.

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[Opinion] Can an AI system be an inventor ?

The IPKat

One question that has recently been in the headlines around the world, thanks to the Artificial Inventor Project, is whether or not an AI system can be regarded as an inventor. Setting aside issues of statutory interpretation, Abbott’s proposal (and hence the Thaler litigation) rests on two prongs, both deeply flawed.

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Northwestern University Sues Moderna Over Spikevax Vaccine

IP Watchdog

The complaint alleges that Northwestern inventors at the school’s International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN) pioneered the technology for a “vehicle for delivering genetic code into a cell by harnessing attributes of naturally-occurring structures, called lipoproteins” through research beginning in the late 2000s.

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CAFC ‘Unambiguously’ Backs USPTO in AI as Inventor Fight

IP Watchdog

Vidal that an artificial intelligence (AI) machine does not qualify as an inventor under the Patent Act. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) ruled today in Thaler v. The decision is the latest in a series of rulings around the world considering the topic, most of which have found similarly. Judge Stark authored the opinion.

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Supreme Court Dodges AI Inventor Question with Denial of DABUS Case

IP Watchdog

Vidal, which asked the Court to consider the question: “Does the Patent Act categorically restrict the statutory term ‘inventor’ to human beings alone?” Dr. Stephen Thaler lost his case at the U.S.

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