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Public-Use Bar: What Startups Need to Know

IP Watchdog

Two such pressures that are frequently at odds with each other are the need to adequately protect the intellectual property that will be the basis for future revenue and investment, and the need to bring such revenue and investment into the business to allow for continued technology development and commercialization.

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Key Points from the USPTO’s New Guidance on AI Use

IP Intelligence

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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Federal Contracting; Contractor Disclosure to Funding Agencies and Agency March-in Rights

LexBlog IP

First, contractors have a duty of disclosure to their funding agency that is separate from the duty of disclosure for patent applications. Standard patent rights clauses. (c) c) Invention Disclosure, Election of Title and Filing of Patent Application by Contractor. (1) Patent rights under federally funded research.

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Intellectual Property Rights and Federally Funded Research

LexBlog IP

However, if the Contractor fails to report any inventions to the contracting officer within two months of preparing the corresponding patent applications, the Contractor risks losing ownership of those inventions. The nations in which the Contractor seeks to file the patent application. important;}}.

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Yes, A Secret Process Can (Still) Create an On-Sale Bar

LexBlog IP

the Supreme Court held that an inventor’s sale of an invention to a third party who is obligated to keep the invention confidential can create an on-sale bar under AIA §102(a). In its 2018 decision in Helsinn Healthcare S.A. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. , ” 35 U.S.C. § § 102(b) (pre-AIA). ” 35 U.S.C. §

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The IPKat EPO Boards of Appeal Year in Review 2022

The IPKat

Board of Appeal finds no legal basis for the requirement to amend the description in line with the claims (T1989/18) (26 Dec 2021) Can amending the description to summarize the prior art add matter to the patent application as filed? (T Whilst this year has seen some truly remarkable advances in machine learning technology (e.g.

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The IPKat EPO Boards of Appeal Year in Review 2023

The IPKat

This approach contrasts with the Board of Appeal decision in T 1158/20 which controversially found that G 1/21 could be dynamically interpreted (or to put it less favourably, ignored) in view of the significant improvements in ViCo technology. Bad cases make bad law: Has DABUS "the AI inventor" actually invented anything?

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