USPTO’s Pilot Program for Deferring Subject Matter Eligibility (SME) Responses
On January 6, 2022 the U.S. Patent Office (USPTO) announced a new pilot program that will allow patent applicants to delay responding to Office Actions that include issues of subject matter eligibility...
View ArticleAnnouncing IPO white paper on Best Practices for Protecting Inventions...
I am excited to announce the publication of the Intellectual Property Owner (IPO)’s white paper on “Protecting Inventions Relating to Artificial Intelligence: Best Practices.” The paper was authored by...
View ArticleUpdates on AI Inventorship: New Zealand, the EPO, and the UK allow an...
I have been monitoring patent application filings around the world that list DABUS (the “Device for the Autonomous Bootingstraiming of Unified Sentience”) as the sole inventor. At issue is whether an...
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Patent Filings Continue Explosive Growth Trend...
PatentNext Summary: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Patent Application filings continue their explosive growth trend at the U.S. Patent Office (USPTO). At the end of 2020, the USPTO published a report...
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Exploring the Metaverse and Patent-related topics
PatentNext Takeaway: The concept of the “Metaverse,” while decades old, is just starting to gain traction today. Early efforts to establish the Metaverse came from the video game industry. That is, as...
View ArticleAnnouncing AIPLA article on Augmented Reality(AR) / Virtual Reality(VR): IP...
I am excited to announce the publication of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)’s article on “IP Aspects of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Technologies.” The article was...
View ArticleThe Federal Circuit hints at Enablement requirements for Artificial...
PatentNext Takeaway: To date, the Federal Circuit has not reviewed many cases involving artificial intelligence (AI). However, in a recent case, the Federal Circuit found that a “machine learning”...
View ArticleIntellectual Property (IP) impacts from President Biden’s Executive Order on...
PatentNext Takeaway: The President’s recent Executive Order (EO) regarding artificial intelligence (AI) addresses, among other things, intellectual property (IP). The EO directs the U.S. Patent and...
View ArticleImproving a User Experience (UX) Alone Does Not Demonstrate a Technical...
PatentNext Takeaway: Demonstrating that a claimed invention provides an “improvement” to an underlying computing device is one of the best ways to achieve patent eligibility pursuant to Section 101 of...
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WIPO Issues a Patent Landscape Report on Generative Artificial Intelligence...
PatentNext Takeaway: WIPO published a Patent Landscape Report on GenAI. The Patent Landscape Report discusses trends in GenAI, including trends in: GenAI scientific publications, GenAI patents,...
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