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Sep 11, 2024 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Ashley Sloat |Ty Davis |Josh Sloat |David Jackrel
Void of pursuing continuations, the language of your patent is frozen in time at issuance. The specifics of the enforceable boundaries of your protection are forever fixed to the claims you chose to pursue with your initial application – but not necessarily with the full breadth of your invention as conceived. For many reasons, practitioners and inventors will often choose to limit how much of an invention is claimed in an initial application. But then the future happens. Case law changes.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Kelly Morron |Josh Sloat |David Jackrel |Ashley Sloat
“With large-scale computers presumably at work, it is disturbing to believe that NIST has willingly permitted submitters to ‘stuff the ballot box.’”I have been critical of certain National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) proposals to alter the regulations related to the Bayh-Dole Act, in 2021 (Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, NPR), and specifically, the NIST “Framework” published for comments in December, 2023.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Josh Sloat |David Jackrel |Ashley Sloat |Ty Davis
For decades, conventional wisdom had most of us believing that automation and the inevitable rise of the machines would upend blue-collar industries first. But then AI had something to say about all of that. From to writing code to even acing the Uniform Bar Examination, AI has become society’s latest (and perhaps most capable!) change agent in the professional workplace. At an astonishing pace, it’s erasing all assumptions as to what industries will be most impacted.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Josh Sloat |Ashley Sloat
What would you have been without a role model? What would you have done had you not known your career path was even an option? The answers to these career and life-defining questions often come down to exposure, access, and whether or not we could picture ourselves doing something in the first place. I doubt there are many readers on here who are not regularly awe-inspired by the incredible work of the inventors we’re fortunate to know and serve. There are few nobler or more important professions.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Jeffrey Ward |Ashley Sloat |Josh Sloat
“OpenAI relied on harvesting mass quantities of content from the public internet, including Plaintiffs’ and the Class’s books, which are available in digital formats.” – Chabon class complaintA Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a number of Tony, Grammy and Peabody award winners are the latest to sue OpenAI for copyright infringement based on the way it trains its popular chatbot, ChatGPT.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Ashley Sloat |Josh Sloat |Ty Davis
Non-diluting capital can be an essential source of funding when trying to get your innovation off the ground. Investor money comes with the loss of equity and/or control. Family and friends’ money may come with the risk of strained relationships. In comparison, essentially free money by way of government grants can seem like an obvious choice, right? And it is for many.
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Jul 8, 2023 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Scott Hervey |Robert Morishita |Josh Sloat |Ashley Sloat
“Show me the money.” “Who you gonna call?” “Go Ahead. Make my day.” While catchphrases like these often hold immense value and creators of these phrases may seek to prevent others from using them under any circumstances, the protectability of short phrases is not always straightforward. When it comes to quoting a short phrase in another creative work such as a book, TV show, movie, or song, the author of the phrase cannot prevent its use in this manner.
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Jul 4, 2023 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Josh Sloat |Ashley Sloat
Why do patents exist in the first place? What function do they serve in society? And what is their historic origin story? In this month’s episode, with the help of Professor Adam Mossoff, we zoom way out, turn the time dial back a bit, and focus on the genesis of patents and the critical role they’ve played as the primary driver in society for encouraging innovation, promoting public disclosure, facilitating technology transfer, and stimulating economic growth.
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Apr 3, 2023 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Josh Sloat |Ashley Sloat
Nearly two decades worth of Federal Circuit and Supreme Court rulings have thrown the patent system into disarray and weakened patent rights for inventors. Subject matter eligibility is a confused, chaotic mess – leaving even the Federal Circuit Chief Justice at a loss on how to determine eligibility. The muddied state of invention enablement puts at risk the software innovations fueling economic growth and the key life science innovations that can save lives.
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Mar 1, 2023 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Ashley Sloat |Josh Sloat |Ty Davis
The United States Supreme Court is set to hear opening arguments in Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi on March 27. This is a case that could have profound impacts both on the invention enablement issues that have been plaguing life science patenting, but also more broadly on defining the contemporary role that the patent system will play in our innovation economy going forward. Specifically at issue will be the question of what genus claims require from an enablement perspective.
