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Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Key Inventorship Considerations in AI-assisted Drug Development

The utilization of artificial intelligence (“AI”) is becoming ubiquitous across a wide range of industry sectors. The biotech industry is no exception. AI-driven platforms have become increasingly useful to biotech...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Intellectual Property Law in the Age of Generative AI

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

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USPTO Extends Comment Deadline on Patent Eligible Subject Matter Guidance for AI Inventions

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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

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The Importance of Prong Two of Step 2A for AI inventions

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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

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

AI Inventorship: Navigating Patent Rights Around the Globe

Recently, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released proposed guidelines addressing the complex issue of AI inventorship. The PTO is not the only agency attempting to tackle this issue; jurisdictions...more

Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig PLLC

How The USPTO Views Human-AI Collaborations

Artificial intelligence (AI) enables computers and machines to think like humans and perform complex tasks traditionally associated with human intelligence, such as making decisions, reasoning, recognizing patterns, and...more

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

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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued guidance on the use of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI, in Intellectual Property (IP) practices involving documents filed at the USPTO....more

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New USPTO Guidance Describes Patent Eligibility for Inventions That Use AI

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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

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Balancing AI-Powered Drug Discovery’s Risk and Reward

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AI is shaving years off the drug-discovery process. But it’s not just leaving other research modalities in the dust—the law itself is struggling to keep up, especially when it comes to patenting AI-aided drug discovery....more

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Industry Reacts to USPTO Guidance on Using AI to Innovate

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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

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USPTO Issues Guidance on AI Use to Patent Professionals — AI: The Washington Report

Pursuant to President Biden’s October 2023 executive order on AI, on April 11, 2024, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO or Office) published “Guidance on Use of Artificial Intelligence-Based Tools in...more

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AI in the Patent Landscape: USPTO Directive Explores Inventorship Dynamics

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In response to the rapidly evolving landscape of innovation and the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into creative processes, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued guidance effective February...more

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Artificial Intelligence Presents Challenges for Intellectual Property Laws’ Focus on Human Creation

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Artificial intelligence (AI) and its ability to generate content closely resembling human output present issues with respect to IP ownership. Maybe you have asked ChatGPT to create a flashy advertisement or write some code...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

The Pros And Cons Of Protecting AI As Trade Secrets

Trade secrets have become a de facto intellectual property right for securing valuable artificial intelligence information. Despite regulatory trends toward greater transparency of AI models, federal policy acknowledges,...more

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USPTO's Guidance on Inventorship of AI-Assisted Inventions Remains True to Fundamental Principles, But May Not Be the Right Test

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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

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The USPTO's AI Inventorship Guidance

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The USPTO published its new “Inventorship Guidance for AI-assisted Inventions” on the Federal Register on February 13, 2024. This new guidance was in part a response to the Federal Circuit’s Thaler decision, which ruled that...more

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USPTO Issues Guidance for Determining Inventorship in AI-assisted Inventions

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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

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USPTO Delivers Inventorship Guidance on AI-Assisted Inventions

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Further to President Biden’s 2023 executive order (EO) on the safe, secure and trustworthy development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) last year, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released its much...more

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PTO Issues Guidance, Request for Comment on AI Inventorship

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On February 13, 2024, the US Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) issued a notice with examination guidance and request for comment regarding inventorship in applications involving artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted inventions....more

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AI Implemented Invention Tips Following USPTO Guidance

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

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

AI-Assisted Inventions: Is There a Duty to Disclose the Use of AI?

Inventors and patent practitioners filing patent applications before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) may have an obligation to disclose if artificial intelligence (AI) is used in the innovation process....more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Patentability and predictability in AI-assisted drug discovery

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are ushering in a new era in drug discovery. The AlphaFold2 system developed by Google’s Deepmind was able to predict the 3D structures of over 200 million proteins -...more

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

Artificial Intelligence the Focus of New USPTO Patent Examiner Guidance

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

Fox Rothschild LLP

Inventorship: USPTO Guidance on AI-Assisted Inventions Underscores Importance of ‘Human Contributions’

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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published a Federal Register Notice on Feb. 13, 2024, providing guidance on inventorship for artificial intelligence-assisted inventions. The Guidance applies to all...more

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The USPTO’s Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions

Last year, the USPTO ruled that an artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be listed as an inventor on a patent application. See USPTO Says AI Machine Cannot Qualify as an Inventor (e.g., “Robert Bahr, Deputy Commissioner for...more

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