Intellectual Property Protection, Machine Learning, Abstract Ideas

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

Quarles & Brady LLP on 5/2/2025

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

Leveraging Policy Changes to Achieve AI Patent Eligibility

Troutman Pepper Locke on 11/25/2024

The patent landscape for artificial intelligence is poised to undergo significant transformation. Originally published in Law360 - August 23, 2024....more

The Importance of Prong Two of Step 2A for AI inventions

Baker Botts L.L.P. on 8/21/2024

Under the direction of President Biden’s executive order on artificial intelligence (AI), the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a guidance update on the subject matter eligibility analysis “to promote...more

USPTO Provides Insight Into Patent Eligibility in the Context of AI

Mayer Brown on 7/23/2024

As required by President Joe Biden’s Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) issued the Guidance on Patent...more

U.S. Copyright Office Launches New Artificial Intelligence Initiative

Jones Day on 3/27/2023

The U.S. Copyright Office published new guidance on the registration of works containing artificial intelligence ("AI")-generated material and announced public roundtables on the intersection of AI and copyright....more

Machine Learning Patentability in 2019: 5 Cases Analyzed and Lessons Learned Part 1

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 2/6/2020

This article is the first of a five-part series of articles dealing with what patentability of machine learning looks like in 2019. This article begins the series by describing the USPTO’s 2019 Revised Patent Subject Matter...more