2022 was a great year for research into advanced computing. The company OpenAI (https://openai.com) made DALL-E and ChatGTP open to the public. DALL-E generates digital images from natural language descriptions. ChatGTP is a chatbot that generates written responses to natural language queries. Both systems use a Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) model, a machine learning model [...]
The U.S. Patent Office announces plans to re-establish the option of having in-person hearings at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) headquarters in Alexandria, VA, and at all regional offices: https://www.uspto.gov/subscription-center/2022/person-ptab-hearings-resume-uspto
Marbury Law ranked in the Top Ten of this year’s PatentBots’ quality scores for U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Technology Center 2800. The ranking was based on a review of 284 firms with at least 50 issued patents in the areas examined by Technology Center 2800 (Semiconductors/Memory, Circuit/Measuring and Testing, Optics/Photocopying, Printing/Measuring and Testing). https://www.patentbots.com/firms/2800
Speaking at the 16th Annual World Congress Summit on Protecting Innovations in the Financial Services Industry in July, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Andrei Iancu said that the agency’s new guidance to examiners on patent subject matter eligibility under Section 101 is “working really well” and resulting in fewer eligibility rejections. That guidance can [...]
After months of indications from various levels of the USPTO that new examination guidelines were in the works, the USPTO has issued two new sets of guidance for examining applications. The first is related to subject matter eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101. The second is related to examining computer-implemented functional claims under 35 U.S.C. [...]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a fast growing area of inventive effort in the U.S. and around the globe. As AI is making new opportunities for innovation and creativity available in both computer sciences and other technology areas, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and other patent offices have moved to start exploring the challenges [...]
Copyrights and trademarks are sometimes called “Soft IP,” but they have tremendous power to stop infringers and counterfeiters at the U.S. border. A registered and recorded U.S. copyright or trademark can subject infringing or counterfeit goods to seizure and destruction before those goods ever get into the U.S. The power to stop infringing or counterfeit [...]
In remarks delivered on September 24, 2018 at the Intellectual Property Owners Association 46th Annual Meeting, USPTO Director Andrei Iancu indicated that further clarification and Examiner training on subject matter eligibility is coming soon. The Director’s comments provide a ray of hope for patent applicants who have struggled with the widely disparate interpretations of the [...]
Marbury Senior Counsel David Hyams and Dr. Dave Levin have co-authored an article for entrepreneurs and inventors in the healthcare information technology field, published on May 23, 2018 in Healthcare Informatics. The article provides an overview of the various types of intellectual property – patents, trade secrets, copyrighted works, and trademarks – that may be [...]
