Can’t Artificial Intelligence Act as Patent Inventor?
The USPTO’s recent landmark decision (16/524,350) ruling that artificial intelligence (AI) could not be a named patent inventor may have sparked fears of super-robots trying to invent vital technologies that, unfortunately, do not receive patent protection. Will a new battery...
Emerging Challenges of Software Patenting
Frequently, inventors or software developers are concerned about their invention and whether or not they will be able to obtain legal protection (software patent) for it. But before we get into the topic of software and patents, it’s important to...
IPR Protection for Your Software Applications
It is critical to protect intellectual property in order to establish and maintain its value. Defining and protecting digital property (software applications etc.) is difficult in a digital economy defined by 1s and 0s (and soon, qubits), as opposed to...
Common Patent Myths to Avoid: Steering Clear of Misinformation
Myths are tradition-based tales that may or may not be wholly fictitious. Everything you believe to be true may not be entirely false, but the reality may be quite different. We are all aware that myths arise from a lack of...
SCOTUS Cases Influencing the IP Landscape in 2023
2023 promises to be a pivotal year for IP observers as they await resolutions in a number of legal cases that will have an impact on the IP industry. This year’s SCOTUS docket includes cases involving induced infringement, divided infringement,...
Prompt Engineering and The AI Revolution
Prompt engineering is a natural language processing (NLP) concept that entails identifying inputs that result in desirable or useful outcomes. Prompting is similar to instructing the Genie in the Magic Lamp. In this case, the magical lamp is Generative AI,...
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