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Does the United States Patent Office Protect Unpublished Applications When Searching the Internet and Artificial Intelligence...

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Short answer: Yes, but… Short answer: Yes, but… Many practitioners in sensitive technology areas file patent applications with non-publication requests or may abandon their applications if examination is not going well...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Life Sciences Industry Update: 2024 Mid-Year Report

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN LIFE SCIENCES - Life sciences companies are forming AI-driven strategic collaborations with tech giants, creating synergy that promises to revolutionize the industry. Companies like NVIDIA,...more

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Key Considerations When Using AI Tools to Draft and File Documents with the USPTO

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The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is changing how practitioners prepare and submit documents. The USPTO’s recent Guidance on Use of...more

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Feeding and Generating AI Creates Patent Application Challenges

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The explosion of artificial intelligence has raised some challenging questions in patent law, particularly with prior art, or the body of knowledge available prior to the filing of patent application. Two of the most...more

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Artificial Intelligence and the Patent Application Process: A Synopsis of the Potential Benefits and Risks

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The use of artificial intelligence ("AI") tools in the patent application process gives rise to a vast array of risks and opportunities for intellectual property ("IP") practitioners and society at large. IP practitioners...more

Haug Partners LLP

Ordinary (Artificial) Intelligence in the Art

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Given their potential to revolutionize many aspects of legal practice and intellectual property, artificial intelligence (“AI”) tools have become a mainstay in the legal space. While AI has its benefits, it also carries...more

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USPTO Requests Public Comments on Patentability in View of AI Advancements

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The USPTO published a request for comments (RFC) on April 30th, focusing on how advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) may impact the USPTO’s assessment of patentability governing (i) what may qualify as prior art and...more

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Patent Poetry: Patent Office Requests Public Comment on AI Prior Art

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The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has published a request for comment (RFC) on “how AI could affect evaluations of how the level of ordinary skills in the arts are made to determine if an invention is patentable...more

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PTAB/USPTO Update - May 2024

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On April 30, the USPTO announced a Request for Comments (RFC) seeking public feedback on how AI could affect USPTO evaluations on patentability, including what qualifies as prior art and the assessment of the level of...more

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USPTO Requests Comments Regarding AI's Impact

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On April 30, 2024, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published a Request for Comments (RFC) seeking stakeholder input on fifteen questions regarding artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on (1) prior...more

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USPTO Announces Request for Comments: AI's Impact on Prior Art and the PHOSITA

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The USPTO is seeking public input on whether prior art must be authored by humans and how, if at all, AI-generated disclosures should be treated differently from non-AI generated disclosures....more

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AI Can’t Be an Inventor, But How About a POSA?

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On April 30, 2024, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) issued a Request for Comment on how AI technology could affect the PTO’s evaluation of patentability, particularly with respect to qualifying prior art and the...more

McCarter & English, LLP

The Rise of AI: Inventorship Challenges and Opportunities for Natural Persons

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A global consensus seems to be forming that an artificial intelligence (AI) system does not deserve—at least for now—to be named as an inventor on a patent application. The question is under consideration and being settled in...more

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USPTO issues new guidance on AI’s role in inventorship of patents

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On February 12, 2024, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued guidance clarifying the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the inventorship of patents. The document exhibits a nuanced approach to the...more

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Federal Circuit Appeals from the PTAB and ITC: Summaries of Key 2022 Decisions

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As part of the recovery from the global COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit took steps to return to normal operations. It began requiring live oral arguments in August 2022 and, by November,...more

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Takes a Role in USPTO Patent Searches

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In 2021 the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based prototype search system for use by examiners during examination of patent applications. As previously discussed by Mintz,...more

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Intellectual Property Bulletin - Winter 2022

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In This Issue - Artificial Intelligence: Deepfakes in the Entertainment Industry — Advances in “deepfake” media techniques that use deep learning AI—from uncanny impersonation videos of Tom Cruise and other...more

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Examining Art Units to Avoid Subject Matter Eligibility Challenges for Bioinformatics and AI-related Patents

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Overview of Subject Matter Eligibility Challenges Computer-based - inventions – especially in the machine learning (ML), bioinformatics, and artificial intelligence (AI) fields – are susceptible to subject matter...more

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The USPTO’s Patent Classification and Search Systems Have Jumped on the AI Bandwagon

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It is no question that Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) technologies have popped up in all aspects of society such as online shopping, music streaming, and social networking. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) has...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

4 Takeaways of USPTO Analysis of AI on IP

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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published a report digesting the feedback it received concerning issues of patent policy for artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The report, “Public Views on...more

Kilpatrick

5 Key Trends - AI Application Examination

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What does examination of an AI application typically look like? Kilpatrick Townsend’s Kate Gaudry and Leron Vandsburger offer five key trends... ...more

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