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In a world in which incalculable amounts of sophisticated sequence data is freely available, are the clunky processes necessary to input patent sequence data really fit-for-purpose?
For tech innovators seeking to understand evolving intellectual property strategies, OpenAI’s recent pivot offers essential guidance: far from relying solely on trade secrets, the AI leader is now aggressively pursuing and accelerating patent grants, signaling a significant shift.
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The cover article of the May 2024 edition of the CIPA Journal proposed a new test for inventive step using AI. The article was inspired by the EPO’s AI assisted search tool, AI-PreSearch. The CIPA journal article proposes to use an AI derived measurement of semantic similarity between the…
According to the USPTO guidance for AI-assisted inventions, AI has the potential to solve some of society’s most difficult challenges. However, in the patent realm, the USPTO also believes that “inventorship analysis should focus on human contributions, as patents function to incentivize and reward human ingenuity”. How then are AI-generated inventions to be protected?…
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Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT have been hailed as potentially revolutionary for the legal industry. Lord Justice Birss himself recently made headlines for praising the usefulness of ChatGPT for writing court judgments. LLMs are undeniably a major technological advance with the potential to make a significant…
In keeping with the so-called media “silly season” of late summer, we thought we would check-in on the AI inventor debate. We have been sceptical about Dr Thaler and his purported inventing machine, DABUS, for some time. A recent EPO Examining Division office action appears to share similar concerns.
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The EPO Board of Appeal has published its full decision on the question of whether a machine can be an inventor (J 8/20). The Board of Appeal had previously announced its decision to refuse two European patent applications naming an algorithm (“DABUS”) as the sole inventor…
