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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.
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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

Texas Lawyer

$51M Judgment at Stake For the University of Texas

The disagreement stems from a section of the licensing agreement stating in paragraph two the royalty rate will not exceed a half-percent for products that "detect Lyme disease in combination with one other veterinary diagnostic test," but paragraph three states a royalty rate of 2.5% for products that "detect Lyme disease in combination with one or more veterinary diagnostic products."
4 minute read

Law.com

How I Made Partner: Don't Hesitate to Advocate For Yourself, Says Debodhonyaa Sengupta of Dentons

"Be good at what you do and take the time to make sure others know that you are good at what you do."
7 minute read

Law.com

Director Vidal's Impact On the PTAB: Big Changes and More On the Way

Perhaps the largest impact that Director Vidal has had upon the PTAB is has been via Director Reviews. The U.S. Supreme Court mandated Director Reviews to correct procedural defects in the way that administrative patent judges are appointed to the PTAB.
11 minute read

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