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Court Short-Circuits Artificial Intelligence Patents: Federal Circuit Tightens Standards for Patent Eligibility

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What does it take to patent an invention on artificial intelligence or machine learning? According to a recent federal appeals court decision, it takes more than just applying a known technique to new data. Rather, the patent...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

New Federal Circuit Decision - Expect Getting AI/Machine Learning Patents Past 101 to Get Tougher

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The Federal Circuit recently issued a decision in Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp., invalidating the patent claims at issue as directed to ineligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101. In what it noted was a case of...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

AI and Copyright: What a Recent Court Ruling Means for AI Creators and Intellectual Property Rights

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In a significant decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit recently ruled that the Copyright Act of 1976 requires human authorship to register a work, affirming the district court’s denial of a...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

DC Circuit Affirms Decision That Copyright Statute Requires Some Amount of Human Authorship, Leaves More Difficult Questions for...

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Does copyright law require that a human create a work? Yesterday the D.C. Circuit in Thaler v. Perlmutter held that it does and that a machine (such as a computer operating a generative AI program) cannot be designated as the...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Decoding Algorithms: Structural Sufficiency for Means-Plus-Function Claim Judged From Skilled Artisan’s Perspective

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reiterated that in the context of construing computer-implemented means-plus-function limitations, if the specification discloses some arguable algorithm, even if a party...more

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Federal Circuit Deems Algorithm Potentially Valid Trade Secret Notwithstanding Prior Publication

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On January 24, 2022, the Federal Circuit affirmed the grant of a preliminary injunction blocking the publication of a patent application on the basis that it contained the plaintiff, Masimo Corp.’s trade secrets. Masimo Corp....more

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