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AI Inventorship: Navigating Patent Rights Around the Globe

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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

Paul Hastings LLP

Artificial Intelligence Patents: Reflections on Recent US v EU v UK Approaches

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The rapid increase in innovation and popularity surrounding AI, its capabilities and seemingly endless applications has created a technological revolution, the magnitude of which hasn’t been seen for decades. This has led to...more

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Inventive AI: UK Supreme Court holds that only humans can be inventors

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An AI system cannot be named as the inventor in a UK patent application – the inventor(s) must be human. Technical developments created by AI cannot be ‘inventions’ within the meaning of UK patent legislation. UK patent...more

Mayer Brown

Can AI Be An Inventor? The US, UK, EPO and German Approach

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On 20 December 2023, the UK Supreme Court unanimously held that UK patent legislation does not permit an AI system to be named as the "inventor" in a patent application. In doing so, the UK Supreme Court reaffirmed earlier...more

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[Webinar] Practical Masterclass in Patenting AI at the EPO and USPTO - October 11th, 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm EDT

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Partners Martin Zoltick ("Marty") and Brian Rosenbloom will be panelists on the "Practical Masterclass in Patenting AI at the EPO and USPTO", co-organized with Haseltine Lake Kempner LLP (HLK), a global intellectual property...more

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Federal Circuit: AI Cannot Be a Named ‘Inventor’ Under the Patent Act

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​​​​​​​On August 5, 2022, the Federal Circuit in Thaler v. Vidal ruled that an artificial intelligence (AI) system cannot be listed as a named inventor on a patent application, affirming the United States Patent and Trademark...more

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The Time is Now: Opportunities to Advise the E.D. Va. or EPO as to Whether to Prohibit, Permit, or Require Listing an AI Algorithm...

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Dr. Stephen Thaler created an artificial-intelligence algorithm – named Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience (DABUS) – that includes multiple neural networks (each trained in a given linguistic...more

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Should We Require Human Inventorship? Submit Your Amicus Brief by March

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A variety of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies exist and are being used in biopharma (e.g., discovery and development of drugs, optimization of clinical trial design, identification of novel biological targets and...more

White & Case LLP

USPTO publishes report on public views on artificial intelligence and IP Policy – US IP law adequate for now, until artificial...

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White & Case Technology Newsflash - As artificial intelligence (AI) evolves, it becomes imperative to examine whether the current intellectual property (IP) legal frameworks, in the US and abroad, are adequate to address...more

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"Creativity Machine" Cannot Be Named As Inventor

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In a Decision on Petition issued in April, and signed by Deputy Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy Robert W. Bahr, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office refused to vacate a Notice to File Missing Parts of...more

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Can AI Be Considered an Inventor? USPTO, EPO Say No

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Both the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) and the European Patent Office (EPO) have confirmed that patent law on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean does not permit artificial intelligence (AI) to be identified as...more

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Update on Federal Register Notice on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Patent Issues

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As noted in our previous post, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published a request for comments for a list of questions regarding Artificial Intelligence (AI) Patent Issues in the Federal Register on August 21,...more

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