4 Tips for Protecting Your AI Products
Innovating with AI: Ensuring You Own Your Inventions
Using Innovative Technology to Advance Trial Strategies | Episode 70
Rob Sahr on the Administration’s Aggressive Approach to Bayh-Dole Compliance
The Briefing: The Patent Puzzle: USPTO's Guidelines for AI Inventions
The Briefing: The Patent Puzzle: USPTO's Guidelines for AI Inventions (Podcast)
#WorkforceWednesday: Invention Ownership - Why the Tense Matters in Employee IP Provisions - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
Patent Dual-application Strategy in China
How to Write a Technical Disclosure for Patent Drafting
The Utility Model System in China
Williams Mullen Manufacturing Edge: IP Considerations for Manufacturers
Risk Prevention Strategies: Ownership of Employee-Developed Inventions and Intellectual Property
Nonpublication Requests For Patent Applications Part 3: Pitfalls
Healthcare Tech: How Are Licensing Agreements Bridging the Industry Divide?
What Is a Patent and How Do I Get One
Nonpublication Requests For Patent Applications Part 1: Benefits
Monthly Minute | Commercialization of an Invention
[IP Hot Topics Podcast] Innovation Conversations: Walter Isaacson, Part 2
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now: An IP Podcast - Patent Searching
PODCAST: Trending Now An IP Podcast - Patent Office Secrecy Orders
Microsoft is developing a way to eliminate hallucinations, or false responses, in artificial intelligence (AI) models. It filed U.S. Patent Application No. 18/140,658, entitled “Interacting with a Language Model using...more
First of all, protect your intellectual property. You are at your core an IP business. The algorithms, the processes, the confidential information behind your products are all intellectual property, so consider how to protect...more
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence has created unprecedented opportunities for innovation, but securing patent protection for AI-related inventions remains challenging under current U.S. patent law....more
The Licensing Executives Society (LES) recently held its annual meeting in New Orleans, drawing together a diverse group of intellectual property (IP) licensing professionals, including attorneys, academics, service...more
The recent surge of accessible generative AI (“GenAI”) tools has kept attorneys, particularly those in the intellectual property, technology, data privacy, and cybersecurity spaces, on their toes. Within the intellectual...more
Discover how advancements in jury research technology are giving trial teams a competitive advantage. This episode features IMS Senior Jury Consulting Advisor Chris Dominic alongside clients Trent Webb and Lauren Douville,...more
The USPTO has extended the public comment deadline in order to afford all stakeholders an opportunity to weigh in on the subject matter eligibility of AI inventions....more
Under the direction of President Biden’s executive order on artificial intelligence (AI), the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a guidance update on the subject matter eligibility analysis “to promote...more
2023 was a breakthrough year for AI technology, marked by the rise of generative AI with a multitude of new GPT models and advanced diffusion models....more
Companies deploying and developing Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) face a critical intellectual property dilemma: How should I protect AI trade secrets in a regulatory landscape that demands transparency?...more
As required by President Joe Biden’s Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) issued the Guidance on Patent...more
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a new guidance document that is intended to help identify when a process or system that uses artificial intelligence (AI) tools may be eligible for patenting. ...more
Further to Woods Rogers’s recent e-alert, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) issued guidance on the patentability of inventions developed using artificial intelligence (AI). The guidance—which has sparked a flurry of...more
Amidst economic constraints, industry convergence, and the need for improved patent quality, patent workflows demand a paradigm shift to meet the evolving landscape. The current macro environment combined with the increasing...more
To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following. ...more
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued guidance on inventorship determinations for inventions developed with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI-assisted inventions). Inventorship of...more
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued its Inventorship Guidance for AI-assisted Inventions for determining inventorship where artificial intelligence (AI) is used during the invention process....more
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit have both previously held that an artificial intelligence (AI) system cannot be a sole inventor on a patent application...more
The burgeoning artificial intelligence (AI) sector received a boost late last year with President Biden’s “Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.” It directed the...more
The evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies has triggered a surge in the filings of patent applications, from machine learning models to applications of those models. See USPTO, Artificial Intelligence (AI)...more
The Federal Circuit held in Thaler v. Vidal that an “inventor” must be a human. During the patent drafting process, the human inventors meet with the patent attorney to describe the invention. In this meeting, the patent...more
As the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in developing new inventions and technologies becomes more prevalent, courts around the world are increasingly addressing whether new inventions developed by AI are eligible for...more
You are likely already familiar with two US recent decisions that have addressed the copyrightability of AI-generated works: (a) On August 18, 2023, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled in...more
Copyright Office Rejects Application for Refusal To Disclaim AI-Generated Elements - The U.S. Copyright Office has once again refused to register a visual work that included elements generated using artificial intelligence...more
Copyright Office Provides Guidance on the Registration of Works That Include AI-Generated Material - During a June 2023 webinar, representatives of the Copyright Office provided much needed clarification and guidance on...more