IP Intelligence

JULY 19, 2024

Practitioners Remain Responsible for AI Compliance: Information submitted to publicly accessible AI tools could trigger an inadvertent public disclosure and materially affect patentability. AI also cannot hold a USPTO account or independently access a practitioner’s account. may result in a breach of export laws.

Inventor 52

Inventor Confidentiality Social Media Public Domain 52

Patently-O

AUGUST 22, 2022

And, once a patent expires (or is refused or forfeited by public use), the balance allows “free access to copy whatever the federal patent and copyright laws leave in the public domain.” And, in addition the court noted that trade secrets protect a “most fundamental human right, that of privacy.”

Patent Law 90

Patent Law Law Patent Invention 90

43(B)log

AUGUST 12, 2022

Skepticism: good for parties, but systemic effect has third party costs to the public—extralegally erodes spaces that law preserves for public use, like facts being in the public domain. A: paper discusses ROP and our conclusion is that, like defamation/privacy, it’s hard to win. Sarver, de Havilland, etc.

IP 70

IP Public Domain Music Copyright 70