Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated a tsunami of popular dystopian musings, but the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has its own concerns about AI’s impact on intellectual property.
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated a tsunami of popular dystopian musings, but the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has its own concerns about AI’s impact on intellectual property. PTO recently announced that it is looking for feedback on the use of AI to produce what litigants might spuriously claim is prior art, a concern that must be addressed if the patent system is to avoid crashing under the weight of an unmanageable volume of AI-generated clutter.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published new enablement guidelines Jan. 10 to provide more consistency across technologies to ensure patent applications truly enable the breadth of their claims in keeping with the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision last year in Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi SA.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published new enablement guidelines Jan. 10 to provide more consistency across technologies to ensure patent applications truly enable the breadth of their claims in keeping with the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision last year in Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi SA.
With an FDA approval decision on treosulfan possibly more than a year off, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted Medac GmbH a third one-year extension of its method-of-use patent covering the drug, which is being developed as a conditioning agent in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
As Medtronic plc. is fond of pointing out, the garage inventor has been the stuff of legend in U.S. business lore, providing a wide range of economically impactful inventions over the two-plus centuries since the U.S. patent system came into being.
With an eye toward the future, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is seeking comment on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and inventorship issues that may arise as AI takes on a bigger role in innovation.
With China taking steps to enact or propose amendments to more than 60 intellectual property (IP)-related laws and regulations over the past few years, drug and device companies doing business in the country need to keep abreast of the changes. Despite China’s efforts, most of the participants in the Feb. 9 U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s quarterly China IP webinar indicated in a pre-webinar survey that they have yet to see much of an improvement in China’s enforcement and regulation of IP rights.
With an eye toward the future, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is seeking comment on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and inventorship issues that may arise as AI takes on a bigger role in innovation.
With China taking steps to enact or propose amendments to more than 60 intellectual property (IP)-related laws and regulations over the past few years, drug and device companies doing business in the country need to keep abreast of the changes. Despite China’s efforts, most of the participants in the Feb. 9 U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s quarterly China IP webinar indicated in a pre-webinar survey that they have yet to see much of an improvement in China’s enforcement and regulation of IP rights.
