Heads: Lawful and necessary tool Tails: Unregulated IP rights infringer. Originally published by Investor’s Digest. Reprinted with permission. Artificial intelligence has moved from novelty to necessity at a pace few technologies have ever matched. Generative AI systems now draft text, design products, compose music and write software code—often in seconds. For inventors and creators, this …
Part 3: Key Takeaways from Claim Examples in the 2024 AI Patent Eligibility Guidance
Part 3 This is the third post in a 3-part series. Below, we describe Example 49 which focuses on using AI to assist with a medical treatment. Example 49. Fibrosis Treatment Key Takeaway for Claim 1: Example 49, Claim 1 includes a likely split-actor issue, because the entities collecting the sample, identifying the high risk/weighted …
Part 2: Key Takeaways from Claim Examples in the 2024 AI Patent Eligibility Guidance
This is the second post in a 3-part series. Example 48 is described below, which is directed to analyzing speech signals and separating desired speech from extraneous or background speech using AI. Example 48. Speech Separation Key Takeaway for Claim 1: Example 48, Claim 1 could be interpreted as receiving spoken audio, and deriving/calculating data …
Key Takeaways from Claim Examples in the 2024 AI Patent Eligibility Guidance: A 3-Part Series
Part 1 On July 17, 2024, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (the Office) released new guidance on subject matter eligibility, entitled “The 2024 Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance Update Including on Artificial Intelligence” (2024 AI SME Update). The 2024 AI SME Update is a lifeline for patent prosecutors prosecuting AI patent applications because it …
Patenting with Artificial Inventors
Guidance on using AI to Invent Due to the quick rise of artificial intelligence (AI), most (if not all) of the laws relating to the US patent system were not written with AI in mind. Court precedent and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) guidelines have taken the place of written law to …