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Swiss Court Signals More Lenient Approach to AI Inventions

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On June 26, 2025, the Swiss Federal Administrative Court (“Court”) issued its decision in case B-2532/2024, resolving a high-profile dispute over whether an artificial intelligence (“AI”) system can be named as an inventor...more

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PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now: An IP Podcast - Who Owns AI Innovation? IP in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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On this episode of Trending Now – An IP Podcast, Janet Cho and former summer associate Evan Klick* explore the evolving intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and intellectual property (IP) law in the life sciences...more

Loeb & Loeb LLP

AI and Patents: Practical Takeaways from Our Recent AI Roundtables

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As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly embedded in product development and business operations, in-house legal teams are facing new and nuanced challenges at the intersection of intellectual property law and AI....more

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USPTO to Launch AI-Powered Image-Based Search Tool for Design Patents Amidst New Legal Standards

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The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced the upcoming launch of an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered image-based prior-art search tool for design patents, scheduled to go live on October 1, 2025 (fiscal...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

Left on the Sidelines: The Canadian Patent Appeal Board Rules that Artificial Intelligence Cannot Hold Inventorship Status

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Whether AI can be an “inventor” was the key issue in an important recent ruling of the Canadian Patent Appeal Board (the “PAB”). In Thaler, Stephen L. (Re), 2025 CACP 8, the PAB had to decide whether Canadian Patent...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

AI Search Tool Coming to Design Patent Examination

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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced the rollout of DesignVision, an advanced AI‑powered image search tool now integrated into the examination system for U.S. design patent applications. According to the...more

DarrowEverett LLP

AI Created It—But Do You Own It? IP Issues Explained

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As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies increasingly generate content, designs, code, inventions, and even music, businesses face a pressing legal question: who owns the output when a machine creates it? The legal...more

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Generative AI and Trade Secrets: A New Frontier for IP Litigation

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As legal and business professionals focused on protecting intellectual property—especially those of us in business litigation—it's crucial to stay attuned to the expanding influence of generative AI (“GenAI”). While patents...more

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USPTO's AI Patent Eligibility Guidance, Vincent Look

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In 2024, the USPTO published guidance on whether an AI-based invention is patent eligible. The guidance includes three hypothetical inventions, including one relating to using an artificial neural network for data anomaly...more

Jones Day

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

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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

Maynard Nexsen

Tool or Inventor? – Inventorship Pitfalls When Using AI in R&D

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Generative AI is a subset of artificial intelligence that enables machines to generate content, such as words, images, voice, and even synthetic data. While Generative AI is relatively new technology, its origins from...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

AI IP Year in Review - AI Inventorship: Navigating Patent Rights Around the Globe

The USPTO released proposed guidelines addressing the complex issue of AI inventorship. The USPTO is not the only agency attempting to tackle this issue; jurisdictions across the globe have been grappling with whether...more

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USPTO Issues Artificial Intelligence Strategy

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in intellectual property is as big – and as fast-changing – a topic as ever. On January 14, 2025, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published an Artificial Intelligence Strategy...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

AI IP Year in Review - The U.S. Copyright Office’s Position on the Copyrightability of Works Made with the Assistance of...

Since platforms like Midjourney and DALL-E became popular, using text-to-image models to generate “AI art” has surged, making it increasingly difficult to distinguish between AI-generated art and human-created works. This...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

AI IP Year in Review - AI Developments at the USPTO

Navigating Inventorship of AI-Assisted Inventions: USPTO’s Guidance and Implications - The USPTO issued guidance on AI-assisted inventions on February 13, 2024. This guidance is part of the USPTO’s ongoing efforts to address...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

IP Hot Topic: USPTO Publishes FAQs on Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions

Following the Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions, the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) has published a set of frequently asked questions (FAQs) and answers regarding the guidance...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

AI IP Year in Review - Patent Law and Generative AI 101

While Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions, such as predictive AI, have been around for decades, generative AI systems are recent innovations with far reaching implications for patent law. Generative AI, such as ChatGPT,...more

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Protecting Innovation in an AI-Powered Age: Patents

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With the advent of generative artificial intelligence (or “GenAI”), many companies have begun to shift their innovation strategies to incorporate and rely on GenAI tools. These tools can be powerful drivers of technological...more

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

Reviewing 2024's Crucial Patent Law Developments

As 2024 draws to a close, several crucial developments — some aimed at modernizing long-standing legal practices, others addressing emerging challenges — have reached patent law. Originally published in Law360 - December...more

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

Continued Investment in AI Drug Discovery Points to Potential Future Significance of Inventorship in Biosimilar Litigation

On December 3, 2024, Bristol Myers Squibb announced a collaboration agreement with three-year-old startup AI Proteins. According to its founder, Chris Bahl, PhD, AI Proteins uses “AI, synthetic biology, and laboratory...more

Fenwick & West LLP

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

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MIT Study Aligns With USPTO’s Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions in Material Science Industry

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A working paper published on Nov. 6, 2024, by Massachusetts Institute of Technology PhD candidate Aidan Toner-Rogers suggests that the patent system may soon see a marked increase in patent application filings due to...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Leveraging Policy Changes to Achieve AI Patent Eligibility

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

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