The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued guidance regarding patentability and inventorship for inventions made with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI), clarifying the Office ...

The murky world of artificial intelligence-enabled inventions requires illumination. Did the USPTO’s recent guidance provide this much-needed illumination, or merely leave a trail of breadcrumbs? Some ...

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“If an invention is ineligible for patent protection now, the same should have been true 50 years ago and should be true 50 years from now.” – Comment by AUTM The deadline for comments on the U.S.

“AI and related tools are available now to support programmatic and ad hoc invention harvesting efforts. To achieve the greatest impact, an organization should consider leveraging multiple tools to ...

Intellectual property (IP) law provides two different and conflicting ways to protect technology: patent and trade secret protection. A patent protects new and useful inventions. With patent ...

Horace Dediu is trying to convince us all to accept a new word of his creation, innoveracy, to aid in explaining new products like Apple's iPhone. Truly ground breaking new products, ones that are ...

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