Category: Artificial Intelligence & Patents
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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.
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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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‘AI copyright litigation is as technical as patent litigation’: an interview with leading IP litigator Justin Nelson
Susman Godfrey’s 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 Court’s growing role in cross-border disputes.