John M. Rogitz

3 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.

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.

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...

1 week ago | ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Steve Brachmann |Gene Quinn |John M. Rogitz

“Cellspin Soft’s cert petition also attacked the Federal Circuit’s finding that any error in the district court’s analysis of recusal was harmless, arguing that errors to constitutional due process are so structural in nature that they cannot be harmless.”The U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari Monday in Cellspin Soft v.

1 week ago | ipwatchdog.com | John M. Rogitz |Eileen McDermott

“Obviously there are some problematic aspects [of this opinion] for those of us drafting patent applications in the AI space.”This past Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a precedential decision affirming a district court holding that the software term “payment handler” was a “nonce” term for functional language that followed it, thereby invoking 35 U.S.C. § 112, sixth paragraph, as mean-plus-function claiming.