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Innovative Insights: Legal Updates in Life Sciences | First Quarter 2025

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Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing life science R&D (particularly in the realm of drug discovery) and challenging the traditional "human inventorship" requirement for U.S. patents. Recent guidance from the USPTO...more

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Blurring the Line Between the Dry and Wet Lab: Joint Inventorship in AI-Assisted Life Science Inventions

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In 2024, not one but two Nobel Prizes (in Chemistry and Physics) were awarded to researchers for their work in artificial intelligence ("AI"). Particularly noteworthy for the life science community is the Nobel Prize in...more

MoFo Life Sciences

Navigating Inventorship in the Era of AI-Assisted Drug Discovery

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This post is part of MoFo’s 2025 Intersection of AI and Life Sciences blog series. In this blog series, we explore how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing research, innovation, and patient care in the life sciences....more

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What is the IP Risk Profile in AI Drug Discovery?

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The scientific benefits and legal risks of AI-driven drug discovery are consequential. But recent IP law decisions allude to a general concept that IP rights will not be awarded if AI completely or significantly replaces...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Key Inventorship Considerations in AI-assisted Drug Development

The utilization of artificial intelligence (“AI”) is becoming ubiquitous across a wide range of industry sectors. The biotech industry is no exception. AI-driven platforms have become increasingly useful to biotech...more

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Unpacking AI-Assisted Drug Discovery Patents

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AI is vaulting drug discovery forward leaps and bounds—and now regulators are beginning to catch up, with the United States Patent and Trademark Office recently issuing new guidelines on the patentability of AI-assisted...more

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Who Gets the Patent When AI Is the Inventor?

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Artificial intelligence is transforming drug design — but it could also disrupt intellectual property law. To realize AI’s full promise, the US may have to reconsider its approach to issuing patents....more

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Can Inventions Created Using Artificial Intelligence Be Patented?

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Artificial intelligence exists on a wide-ranging spectrum. On one end, grammar and spell check can detect and correct grammatical errors and typos in written text. On an opposite end, generative artificial intelligence such...more

Proskauer - The Patent Playbook

Update on Artificial Intelligence: USPTO Urges Federal Circuit to Affirm Decision That AI Cannot Qualify as an “Inventor”

In three previous blog posts, we have discussed recent inventorship issues surrounding Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) and its implications for life sciences innovations – focusing specifically on scientist Stephen Thaler’s...more

Proskauer - The Patent Playbook

Update on Artificial Intelligence: Court Rules that AI Cannot Qualify As “Inventor”

Striking a blow to patent applicants seeking to assert inventorship by artificial intelligence (“AI”) systems, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled on September 3, 2021 that an AI machine cannot...more

Proskauer - The Patent Playbook

Artificial Intelligence as the Inventor of Life Sciences Patents?

The question whether an artificial intelligence (“AI”) system can be named as an inventor in a patent application has obvious implications for the life science community, where AI’s presence is now well established and...more

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