The Patent Office recently announced that it will begin enforcing a rule that requires that inter partes review (IPR) petitions “specify where each element of the claim is found in the prior art ...

USPTO Director John Squires on Monday issued new guidance directing patent examiners to recuse themselves in all instances ...

Director Stewart’s decision in iRhythm initiating IPR denials under the settled-expectations consideration outlined in her memorandum raises questions that are likely to be answered in future matters.

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Over the past year, the U.S. patent system has shown ...

The US Patent Office reaffirms that patents cannot be granted to artificial intelligence. However, it clarifies that the utilization of an AI system by a human does not prevent an individual from ...

From America’s founding days, fierce debates have defined our country’s experiment in democracy. Yet, even from the start, Americans of all political factions have found common ground in a simple idea ...

But ‘the use of an AI system by a natural person does not preclude a natural person from qualifying as an inventor.’ But ‘the use of an AI system by a natural person does not preclude a natural person ...

Over a decade ago, I co-authored the bipartisan Leahy-Smith America Invents Act to modernize our patent system. One of its key reforms was the creation of a streamlined panel inside the U.S. Patent ...

The question of where AI sits in the legal personhood stack isn’t as simple as it may seem (i.e. “nowhere”) — but the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today declared that, as with other intellectual ...