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It's Official: 'AI Inventors' Have Arrived. But Most Patent Offices Won't Recognize Them

South Africa and Australia have signaled they will stray from the U.S. and other top patent filing countries' definition of an inventor. But such divergence could endanger patent standardizations and treaty agreements.
4 minute read

Law.com

Artificial Intelligence and Subject Matter Eligibility In U.S. Patent Office Appeals

For the foreseeable future, patent applications involving artificial intelligence technologies will increase with the continued proliferation of such technologies. However, subject matter eligibility can be a significant challenge in securing patents on artificial intelligence and machine learning.
13 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Gibbons Representing Unilever in Trade Dress Suit Over Soap Packaging

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
1 minute read

Daily Business Review

Black-Owned IP Law Firm Emerges in Orlando via Minority Firm Incubator

James Bennin's Onyx IP Group is the first minority-owned firm produced by the incubator, which Harrity & Harrity launched in 2019 with the aim of increasing diversity in the legal profession.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

U.S. Intellectual Property Is Critical to National Security

If we are to maintain our technological lead, we must re-examine all such key IP weaknesses and embrace IP policies that will incentivize and protect investments in creating AI and other emerging technologies.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

10 Questions About Patent Prosecution That Inside Counsel Should Be Able to Answer

Well-trained inventors are essential to building a high-quality patent portfolio that won't blow the budget.
8 minute read

National Law Journal

How 1 Little Typo Almost Torpedoed a Patent Application

The PTO kept sending mail to an incorrectly provided street address, even though it had an email, a telephone number and a unique customer identifier it could have cross-checked. Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled that it was likely arbitrary and capricious for the PTO to withdraw a patent application under those circumstances.
5 minute read

Law.com

How I Made Law Firm Leader: Advice From Marshall Gerstein Executive Committee Member Sandip Patel

'Engage with mentors and peers. With both types, share your concerns, your successes and your failures. Without these people, it's going to be difficult to figure out in which direction to steer your career and whether you're actually driving toward a goal.'
9 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Patents, Pending Patent Applications and Notice Letters

Regardless of your strategy to protect your intellectual property, the content and timing of notice letters are important issues to consider before giving notice to potential infringing competitors.
6 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Court's Expansion of Attorney Immunity Could Change How Texas Lawyers Practice

"I think we are probably going to see an increase in recitations in transactions that you understand and the other party understands we have differing interests in this transaction," said Blank Rome partner Susan Bickley of Houston.
4 minute read

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