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National Law Journal

'Good News and Bad News': Questions Remain as USPTO Updates Guidance for Utility Patents

"There's no thornier issue than obviousness in patentability," said IP attorney Kevin Crosby.
5 minute read

Law.com

Recent Patent Trial and Appeal Board Approaches to Patent Claims on Medical Technology Implementing AI

Each decision involves reversal of a prior art rejection and contrasts with the other decisions on subject matter eligibility, revealing different PTAB approaches and results that can inform prosecution and appeal strategies.
10 minute read

Law.com

Treatment of Antibody Claims In the U.S. After 'Amgen v. Sanofi'

The future of antibody claiming in the United States is uncertain following the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in 'Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi,' a highly anticipated decision concerning enablement and whether the traditional way to claim antibodies — claiming antibodies by their function — will survive as a valid claiming strategy.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Former GSK Patent Leader Moves to Troutman Pepper

Duke Fitch started at the company as a medicinal chemist and rose to vice president of U.S. pharmaceutical patents after earning his law degree.
2 minute read

Law.com

Protecting Technology-Assisted Works and Inventions: Where Does Smart Technology End and AI Begin?

At what point does a "smart" computing system, or advanced software program, qualify as AI in the eyes of pertinent regulatory or judicial authorities? When is an individual considered to have merely deployed an AI-based computing tool to assist with creating a work of art or conceiving of a technological innovation? Each of these questions is explored in this article, giving consideration to currently prevailing guidelines from administrative bodies and the courts.
11 minute read

The American Lawyer

Gunderson Transactions Leader Jumps To Orrick, Embracing 'Convergence' Between Tech and Life Sciences

David Sharrow, based in Boston, held a leadership role in Gunderson's strategic transactions and licensing group for over a decade.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Expect More Patent Filings After a Decade-Long Low, Say Baker Hostetler IP Practice Leaders

The most common rationale for the dearth of patent filings has been "the economy," however, the report also notes jurisdictional changes may be a cause.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Why Lawyers Will Survive the Onset of Generative AI—and How They'll Affect Who Won't

If user inputs are used to train models such as ChatGPT, can lawyers input their clients confidential information when generating motions, briefs or patent applications? How does scraped data used to train AI co-exist with the right to be forgotten? And when it comes to filing patents and copyrights for works produced by AI, who owns it?
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Patenting Strategies When AI Is an Inventor

AI has been used in a number of ways to contribute to the development of an invention and such AI inventions can be categorized as follows: inventions that embody an advance in the field of AI itself; inventions that apply AI; and inventions produced by AI itself.
8 minute read

Law.com

Can Artificial Intelligence Patents Survive 'Alice'?

Part One of a Two-Part Article Under the current Alice framework, those attempting to patent AI innovations face an uphill battle. But, as the caselaw demonstrates, inventors and patent drafters can take steps to reduce the risk of AI patent claims being invalidated as abstract ideas.
18 minute read

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