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Understanding the 2024 USPTO Guidance Update on AI Patent Eligibility

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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued an important update to its guidance on patent subject matter eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101, specifically focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) and other...more

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IP Alert: USPTO Issues Guidance for Examining Means-Plus-Function and Step-Plus-Function Claim Limitations

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On March 18, the USPTO issued a guidance document on how to examine claims that recite functional limitations without necessarily using the term “means” under 35 U.S.C. § 112. The guidance document aims to improve clarity,...more

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New Guidance Addresses Use of AI Systems, Tools in Practice Before the PTO

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The US Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) issued new guidance on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in practice before the PTO. The new guidance is designed to promote responsible use of AI tools and provide...more

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How to Maximize Your AI-Assisted Invention’s Patentability

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Artificial intelligence is rapidly reinventing the research and development process, but until recently, patentability remained a major uncertainty. That’s until the United States Patent and Trademark Office stepped in and...more

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PTO Provides Guidance on Inventions Created with Help from Artificial Intelligence

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On February 13, 2024, the USPTO (PTO) published its guidance for inventions made with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI). The PTO published the guidance in response to the directive it received in the Executive...more

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Intellectual Property for the Metaverse

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How do you use the patent system to protect inventions related to the metaverse? What is the Metaverse? Merriam Webster defines the metaverse as “a persistent virtual environment that allows access to and interoperability of...more

MoFo Tech

AI Trends For 2023 - AI Technology Leads Patent Filing Growth

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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

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Building A Technological Moat: Strategic Use of Continuing Patent Applications

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For technology-focused companies that rely heavily on innovation, patent portfolio development is critical for establishing and expanding their competitive edge. A key for strategic portfolio development is the continuation...more

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Patent Poetry: Intellectual Property in Wartime

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As we wrote in this recent blog, whistleblowers from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) have called for the closure of WIPO’s Russia office in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They’re concerned...more

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Patent Protection on AI Inventions

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In recent years, AI patent activity has exponentially increased. The figure below shows the volume of public AI patent applications categorized by AI component in the U.S. from 1990-2018. The eight AI components in FIG. 1 are...more

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Five Tips For Life Sciences Companies To Protect Their AI Technologies

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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

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Drafting Effective Blockchain Patents

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As the number of blockchain-based patents and patent applications increases, more companies have become interested in pursuing these patents. Other companies still think that blockchain-based inventions are not patentable....more

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