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AI Enters the Design Patent Arena as the USPTO Launches DesignVision

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP on 7/28/2025

In a significant step toward modernizing design patent examination, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has introduced DesignVision, a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered image search tool now available...more

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

Stikeman Elliott LLP on 7/18/2025

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

Threat to Many Patent Portfolios Fades as USPTO Withdraws Controversial Proposed Rule

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP on 12/10/2024

Facing strong opposition from a rare alliance of the pharma and tech industries as well as past agency leaders, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has withdrawn a proposed new rule directed at Terminal Disclaimer...more

European Patent Office Issues New Guidelines on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints on 11/8/2018

On November 1, 2018, the European Patent Office (“EPO”) issued new guidelines for the patentability of artificial intelligence (“AI”) and machine learning (“ML”) inventions which indicate that applications within this subject...more

Two Years After Alice: A Survey of the Impact of a "Minor Case" (Part 2)

Fenwick & West LLP on 6/21/2016

AliceStorm at the USPTO - While AliceStorm's effect is most visible in the courts, because of their public nature, the real impact is largely unseen: it is the widespread rejection of patent applications by the USPTO. ...more

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AI Enters the Design Patent Arena as the USPTO Launches DesignVision

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

Threat to Many Patent Portfolios Fades as USPTO Withdraws Controversial Proposed Rule

European Patent Office Issues New Guidelines on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Two Years After Alice: A Survey of the Impact of a "Minor Case" (Part 2)

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