Category: Artificial Intelligence & Patents
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Let’s not allow AI slop to pollute the SEP ecosystem with plausible-sounding fake reasoning aka hallucination — let’s make responsible use of AI
An “analysis” generated by an engine with a 46% hallucination rate had various members of the SEP ecosystem in awe until we flagged one of the issues. It was a biggie, but not the biggest one.
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ETRI announces $34M annual revenue from standard-essential patents
The Korean research institute has reported its 2025 revenue from licensing standard-essential patents, along with new essentiality declarations.
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AI opportunities, UK interim license frustration and global SEP injunction divergence: highlights from Via’s Business Summit in Rome
ip fray breaks down some of the highlights of Via Licensing Alliance’s third-ever Business Summit in Rome this week, where it took part as official media partner and one of the panel moderators.
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Apple settles wide-angle camera patent infringement dispute in District of Delaware after successfully invoking “single-means” doctrine
Apple has settled two parallel actions brought by Canada’s Immervision over the alleged infringement of the latter’s wide-angle camera-related patents, bringing the companies’ five-year dispute to an end.
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UK Supreme Court’s Emotional Perception ruling demotes Aerotel, leaves door open to AI inventions, but hurdle remains high
The claimed invention in question is interesting. It involves two different artificial neural networks working in tandem.
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Patent lawyers slapped with $12,000 fine for AI-generated submissions: level of hallucinations in court filings “staggering”, says judge
United States District Judge Julie Robinson of the United States Court for the District of Kansas has fined four lawyers $12,000 for submitting fabricated AI-generated case citations in a patent infringement case. The misrepresented material was a consequence of artificial intelligence hallucinations, which are heavily on the rise.
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“Limited” UPC impact on global pharma patent strategies, interim licenses debate, “seismic” changes at the PTAB: highlights from Patent Litigation Europe
An overwhelming consensus that life sciences companies prefer to litigate in parallel national courts rather than in the UPC, and an intense debate about the use of interim licenses over arbitration, were among the highlights of the second and third days of Kisaco’s annual Patent Litigation Europe in Amsterdam this week.
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Via Licensing Alliance’s memory technology patent pool now conducting formation meetings, with notable interest from licensees, licensors in Asia
As the first of its semiconductor pools moves forward, Via Licensing Alliance will soon introduce a pool focused on interconnect technologies, Via’s vice president of program management Willy Chang told ip fray in an interview.
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Lack of European AI patents: detailed analysis of Europe’s technology gap and digital colonization, and why it’s too late to reverse the trend
Europe lacks natural resources and access to cheap, abundant, and reliable energy. The consequences are uncomfortable for Europeans to see, but it’s better to understand the problem and why it can’t/won’t be solved anymore.