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2 days ago | 
ipwatchdog.com | Steve Brachmann |Eileen McDermott
“In the Office’s view, training a generative AI foundation model on a large and diverse dataset will often be transformative.” – U.S. Copyright Office Late last week—one day after the Trump Administration fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and the day before it fired Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter—the U.S. Copyright Office released a pre-publication edition of the third part in the agency’s series of reports exploring issues in copyright law in light of evolving artificial...
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2 days ago | 
ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |John M. Rogitz |Gene Quinn |Steve Brachmann
“Referring to his solution as ‘equalization,’ Trump said, ‘starting today the United States will no longer subsidize the healthcare of foreign countries…. We will no longer tolerate price gouging from big pharma.'”On Sunday, May 11, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he would sign an Executive Order today aimed at lowering prescription drug prices.
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3 days ago | 
ipwatchdog.com | John M. Rogitz |Eileen McDermott
“Considering videos games have become a multi-billion dollar industry, it can certainly be worth protecting inventions in this space with patents.”There’s always been a lot of confusion over whether you can patent video games. So, can you? The short answer is yes. In fact, there’s so much high tech that goes into modern video games that I couldn’t possibly fit it all into one article. I’ll still provide some examples in just a second, but first, let’s dispatch with what’s not patentable.
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3 days ago | 
ipwatchdog.com | Gene Quinn |Steve Brachmann |Eileen McDermott
Howard Lutnick is the first Secretary of Commerce to ever be a patented inventor and is a named inventor on some 400 patents. He is also the only Secretary of Commerce to ever attend the annual Inventors Hall of Fame induction ceremony, which is one of the best nights of the year for the industry—akin to the Academy Awards for patented inventors.
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5 days ago | 
ipwatchdog.com | Steve Brachmann |Eileen McDermott
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6 days ago | 
ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Steve Brachmann
“In this case, ‘the efficiency and integrity of the patent system is best served by denying institution,’ concluded Stewart.”The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), on Wednesday, May 7, designated a recent Director Review decision issued by Acting Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Coke Morgan Stewart, as informative. The decision clarified that a district court’s final judgment of invalidity favors denial of inter partes review (IPR) under the Fintiv framework.
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6 days ago | 
ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Steve Brachmann
“New language emphasizes the importance of providing U.S. innovators with full and fair opportunities to use their IP and calls out foreign markets that fail to appropriately recognize the value of innovative medicines and medical devices.” – GIPC blog post The Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce published a blog post today calling the U.S. Trade Representative’s (USTR’s) latest Special 301 Report “particularly significant” due to the Trump Administration’s...
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1 week ago | 
ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Steve Brachmann
“The false connection inquiry can… include evidence that comes into existence during the examination process.” – CAFCThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Wednesday affirmed a Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) decision upholding an examiner’s refusal to register the mark US SPACE FORCE to Thomas Foster.
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1 week ago | 
ipwatchdog.com | Gene Quinn |Eileen McDermott
“By all outward indications, the Trump Administration seems to clearly believe the PTAB has gone too far, and that patents matter.”The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has come under fire from patent owners since virtually the beginning of its existence. Once predicted to handle between 450 to 500 challenges a year, between April 1, 2024, and March 31, 2025, the PTAB received 1,395 petitions.
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1 week ago | 
ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Gene Quinn |Steve Brachmann |John M. Rogitz
[itpw_quote]“On the record, the AI executed the traditional elements of authorship, while Dr. Thaler’s contribution was to build an AI system generally capable of generating creative works, and then to have, effectively, ‘pushed a button’ that resulted in the output of a particular creative work.” – Thaler petition[/ipw_quote] Dr. Stephen Thaler, who has been fighting to have his AI machines recognized as both inventors and creators on several fronts for the last few years, has petitioned for...
