Category: Artificial Intelligence & Patents
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USPTO Director Squires clarifies human inventors can use AI like any other tool; but under Federal Circuit case law, AI can’t be named as inventor
New guidance from the USPTO gives companies a high degree of legal certainty with respect to the use of AI as a tool.
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EXCLUSIVE: Meet the billion-dollar AI lawyer with a passion for patent litigation
In an exclusive interview with ip fray, Justin Nelson of Susman Godfrey discussed some of the biggest cases in his career, how Susman Godfrey finds and trains its lawyers, the difference (and cross-overs) between patent and copyright litigation, and how he decides on whether to take up a case or not.
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âAI copyright litigation is as technical as patent litigationâ: an interview with leading IP litigator Justin Nelson
Susman Godfreyâs Justin Nelson, first-chair trial counsel for a class of copyright holders in a $1.5 billion action against Claude AI maker Anthropic, sat down with ip fray to discuss his work in patent litigation, the technical cross-over between copyright and patent cases, and the Unified Patent Courtâs growing role in cross-border disputes.
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Masimo insinuates Trump lets Apple infringe patents in exchange for investment: ChatGPT and Elon Musk’s Grok AI share this reading
This interpretation of the medical device maker’s complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia is supported by Grok AI’s analysis.
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Supercomputer firm ParTec files another Unified Patent Court lawsuit against NVIDIA, seeking 18-country injunction
Supercomputer firm ParTec ups the pressure on NVIDIA (and, by extension, Microsoft) by asserting a recently granted unitary patent in the Unified Patent Court.
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IP people often âhide in their cornerâ: Atos IP head on the importance of visibility in boosting C-suite support, budgets
In this interview, Yann Dietrich discusses how much Atosâs perception of IP has changed since he first joined, how IP is not a âlegalâ question but a âbusiness modelâ question, and the increasing importance of trade secrets.
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Xockets sues Amazon for infringing cloud computing patents in Western District of Texas
Xockets has filed two parallel patent infringement suits against Amazon, alleging that the tech giant has âwillfully trampledâ on its IP to achieve âstaggering profitsâ from its cloud computing products.
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AI patent-eligibility: spotting hallucinations over value-adds
While AI is accelerating discovery, designing software, and shaping new chemical compounds, some industry voices question whether we have become too dependent on it to invent, and how the pitfalls of that over-dependence are being materialized.
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Supercomputer firm ParTec seeks discretionary denial of Microsoft’s PTAB IPR petition under Acting USPTO Director’s new bifurcated framework
A dispute over the architecture of server clusters used for AI could give rise to one of the first high-profile discretionary denials under Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart’s new rules.
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EPO Patent Index 2024: Unitary Patent requests “exceeded expectations” despite stagnant European applications
The European Patent Officeâs Patent Index 2024 found that there was no growth in European applications (-0.1%) compared with 2023, although unitary protection was requested for 25.6% of all patents granted by the EPO in 2024 â a 53% increase compared to 2023.