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The Intellectual Property Strategist

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D.C. Circuit Court Rules That Artificial Intelligence Cannot Solely Author Copyrightable Works Image

D.C. Circuit Court Rules That Artificial Intelligence Cannot Solely Author Copyrightable Works

Paulluvi Henley

The D.C. Circuit affirmed that AI cannot be the sole author on a copyright-registered work, but left questions about the future of AI authorship in copyright for Congress to resolve.

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Writing Strong Antibody Claims: Avoiding or Addressing USPTO Rejections for Written Description and Enablement Image

Writing Strong Antibody Claims: Avoiding or Addressing USPTO Rejections for Written Description and Enablement

Ryan P. Hiler & Jessamine Pilcher

Many patent applicants currently face difficulty in obtaining antibody claims because of written description and enablement rejections under 35 U.S.C. §112(a). The USPTO routinely rejects claims as too broad, arguing that such claims cover more antibodies than the specification discloses, or that undue experimentation would be needed to determine whether an antibody reads on the claims. These heightened disclosure requirements increase laboratory costs to generate sufficient data for a §112(a)-proof specification.

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Reframing the AI Debate Will Improve How We Practice Law Image

Reframing the AI Debate Will Improve How We Practice Law

Michael M. Rosen

For the last several years, I’ve become obsessed with a particular legal, technological, and philosophical question: Can a robot invent on its own?

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New Bifurcated PTAB Pretrial Procedure: Procedural Deep Dive and Possible Implications Image

New Bifurcated PTAB Pretrial Procedure: Procedural Deep Dive and Possible Implications

Scott Cummings

In the latest action part of a recent whirlwind of PTAB policy and procedural change around the use of so-called “discretionary denial” to refuse to a challenge to the validity of a granted patent, the Acting Director of the USPTO has issued a memorandum creating a new “bifurcated” pretrial procedure to be used for deciding whether or not to proceed with a trial in response to a petition for inter partes review or post grant review of a granted patent.

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The AI Litigation Battleground: Existing IP Legal Frameworks Create Uncertain Environment Image

The AI Litigation Battleground: Existing IP Legal Frameworks Create Uncertain Environment

James A. Wolff 

As artificial intelligence continues to drive innovation at an unprecedented pace, it has also become a battleground for litigation, particularly concerning intellectual property misappropriation, data scraping and model transparency.

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