Patent Applications, Inventions, Investors

When to Patent: Common Mistakes Business Leaders Make

Offit Kurman on 6/30/2025

Suppose a newly hired engineer on your team sketches a promising new concept for a health monitor in a notebook. Excited by the idea, you loop in marketing, and soon, your company is promoting the product’s features through...more

AI Systems May Invent, But Are They Inventors?

Weintraub Tobin on 8/12/2022

Previously, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“Federal Circuit”) has found that a non-human may infringe patents. Arguably, an AI system, which is a non-human, can also create or invent. But can an AI system be a...more

Assignor Estoppel: When Are Inventors Allowed to Attack Their Own Inventions?

Fenwick & West LLP on 8/27/2021

An inventor develops an invention, files a patent application and assigns the application for value to the company they founded. Later, the inventor founds another company and develops an improved version of their original...more

Derivation Proceedings

Morgan Lewis on 4/22/2021

A petitioner can use derivation proceedings to challenge the inventorship of an invention claimed in a published pending application or an issued patent. Only applications and patents having at least one claim with an...more

[IP Hot Topics Podcast] Innovation Conversations: Walter Isaacson, Part 2 (Transcripts)

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 10/13/2020

The second episode of IP Hot Topics features part two of our “Innovation Conversations” discussion with renowned author, analyst, journalist, historian and Tulane University professor Walter Isaacson. Sterne Kessler Directors...more

[IP Hot Topics Podcast] Innovation Conversations: Walter Isaacson, Part 2