News & Analysis as of

Today's Popular Updates › Patent Applications › Inventions

A repository for the most well-read content on JD Supra at any given time, along with occasional roundups of popular content by specific topic. Also stop by for monthly recaps of hot articles for the previous... more +
A repository for the most well-read content on JD Supra at any given time, along with occasional roundups of popular content by specific topic. Also stop by for monthly recaps of hot articles for the previous thirty days. less -
Baker Donelson

A Baker's Dozen of Patent Law Developments for 2024

Baker Donelson on

The world of intellectual property law is always changing, and it can be difficult to keep up. Here are 13 developments in patent law so far in 2024 to help you stay in the know....more

International Lawyers Network

Seedlings of Ideas For Artificial Intelligence: Learning From A Genetic Resources/Traditional Knowledge Treaty, The Plant Patent...

International Lawyers Network on

The World Intellectual Property Organization announced on May 24, 2024, a treaty on intellectual property, genetic resources, and associated traditional knowledge that was twenty-five years in the making. As WIPO’s press...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Supreme Court Holds Invalid Cholesterol Drug Patent That Covered Millions of Undisclosed Antibodies

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on

In Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi, the Supreme Court unanimously held that “[i]f a patent claims an entire class of processes, machines, manufactures, or compositions of matter, the patent specification must enable a person skilled in...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

The Quest for an "Artificial Intelligence" Inventor

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on

The United States Constitution provides the basis for patent laws; it says "Congress shall have power . . . to promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the...more

MoFo Tech

AI Trends For 2023 - AI Technology Leads Patent Filing Growth

MoFo Tech on

The prevalence and power of AI technologies are rapidly expanding, both at the captivating cutting-edge of creative AI models like the DALL-E image generator and the ChatGPT chatbot, and in the increasing pervasiveness of...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Takeaways From the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies Partnership Series – Part...

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on

On September 22, 2022, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) conducted a live meeting for its Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Emerging Technologies (ET) Partnership Series. During this meeting, panelists from industry...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Takeaways From the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies Partnership Series – Part...

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on

On September 22, 2022, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) conducted a live meeting for its Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Emerging Technologies (ET) Partnership Series. During this meeting, panelists from industry...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Artificial Intelligence as a patent inventor

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on

​​​​​​​Can an artificial intelligence (AI) system be an inventor? Not in the eyes of the Federal Circuit and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). ...more

McCarter & English, LLP

Artificial Intelligence and Inventorship: An Expected Decision with Uncertain Consequences

McCarter & English, LLP on

The top U.S. patent court has confirmed what many were expecting in the patent community — that artificial intelligence (AI) is not considered an “individual” according to the Patent Act and thus AI cannot be named as an...more

Clark Hill PLC

Artificial Intelligence and Inventorship: Federal Court of Appeals Determines That Patent Inventors Must Be Human

Clark Hill PLC on

Inventions such as the wheel, the printing press, light bulb, telescope, microscope, transistor, microchip, and the Internet, are amazing in and of themselves. However, these, and thousands of other inventions have also...more

AEON Law

Patent Poetry: Federal Circuit Rules AI Can't Invent

AEON Law on

The Federal Circuit has ruled that only human beings – and not an artificial intelligence (AI) can be considered an “inventor” under US patent law. (We wrote about this issue way back in 2017, by the way…)... ...more

Miller Nash LLP

CAFC Confirms That Artificial Intelligence Cannot Be an Inventor

Miller Nash LLP on

About a year ago, we reported on a case out of the Eastern District of Virginia. Stephen Thaler had appealed a decision by the USPTO refusing to recognize an AI machine he created as a person. Judge Brinkema of the Eastern...more

Morgan Lewis

US Federal Circuit: Artificial Intelligence Machine Is Not an Inventor

Morgan Lewis on

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed on August 5 that only a natural person—not an artificial intelligence system—can be an inventor....more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

AI Need Not Apply: Federal Circuit Holds Artificial Intelligence Cannot Be an Inventor

Vinson & Elkins LLP on

On August 5, 2022, in Thaler v. Vidal, No. 21-2347 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 5, 2022), the Federal Circuit held that an artificial intelligence (“AI”) system cannot be listed as an inventor on a United States patent. In rejecting a...more

Linda Liu & Partners

Analysis of Patent Applications for Novel Coronavirus Detection Kits

Linda Liu & Partners on

The rapid spread of the novel coronavirus (officially known as “SARS-CoV-2” and hereinafter referred to as “NC” for short) led to the COVID-19 pandemic. All countries around the world are fighting against the disease. In this...more

Kilpatrick

Bioinformatics – Eligibility Challenges for Inventions at the Intersection Of Biology and Software: Part 2

Kilpatrick on

(Part 2 of a 4 Part Series) - The application of innovative data driven approaches such as bioinformatics and artificial intelligence to the life science sector has brought about a change in way that biological inventions...more

Proskauer - Life Sciences

Update on Artificial Intelligence as a Patent Inventor

Proskauer - Life Sciences on

Our previous blog posts, Artificial Intelligence as the Inventor of Life Sciences Patents? and Update on Artificial Intelligence: Court Rules that AI Cannot Qualify As “Inventor,” discuss recent inventorship issues...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Can Computer Systems Using Artificial Intelligence Patent their own Inventions?

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP on

Increasingly, companies are using artificial intelligence to invent new methods and products.  But can a named inventor be a non-human machine under the law? ...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

US Court Rules Artificial Intelligence Systems Are Not 'Inventors'

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing on

On September 2, 2021, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia granted the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) motion for summary judgement, finding that an artificial intelligence (AI)...more

Smart & Biggar

Fact or fiction? Debunking patent myths for business and technology leaders.

Smart & Biggar on

There are many misconceptions or ‘myths’ about patents that have found their way into popular discourse, ranging from what type of innovations are patentable, to how important it is to own and protect your intellectual...more

Proskauer - Life Sciences

Artificial Intelligence as the Inventor of Life Sciences Patents?

Proskauer - Life Sciences on

The question whether an artificial intelligence (“AI”) system can be named as an inventor in a patent application has obvious implications for the life science community, where AI’s presence is now well established and...more

Weintraub Tobin

Australian Judge Rules Inventions Developed By Artificial Intelligence Can Qualify For Patent Protection

Weintraub Tobin on

In Thaler v. Commissioner of Patents, case number VID 108 of 2021, in the Federal Court of Australia, an Australian Federal Judge became the first known jurist to rule that inventions developed by artificial intelligence can...more

Winstead PC

Recent Developments in Artificial Intelligence and IP Law: South Africa Grants World’s First Patent for AI-Created Invention

Winstead PC on

On July 28, the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission of South Africa granted the world’s first patent on an invention created by an artificial intelligence (“AI”) inventor. This development marks an important...more

Goodwin

Five Tips For Life Sciences Companies To Protect Their AI Technologies

Goodwin on

Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized many technology areas. As a few examples, it has already been instrumental in improving and enabling voice recognition algorithms, digital assistants, advertisement...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Patently Obvious? AI as an Inventor After DABUS

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing on

On 7 September 2020, the UK government published a call for views on the future relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and intellectual property (IP). Though the government called for views on all areas of...more

36 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 2
Next »

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
Sign up Log in
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide