Navigating AI in Patent Drafting: What Inventors Should Know
As an inventor, it is important to disclose your ideas in writing. Ideally, your initial drafts should explain some of the key … Read more
Ex Parte Desjardins: The USPTO makes AI Patents easier
USPTO Director Squires issued a precedential decision, further opening the door for patents on AI inventions. Here’s what this decision means. Prosecuting … Read more
PERA: Congress attempts to fix Patent Eligibility
The courts have spent a decade telling inventors their ideas are “abstract.” Congress is finally tired of it too. If you have … Read more
Machine Learning is Generic
In Recentive Analytics vs Fox, the Federal Circuit determined that absent more, machine learning methods are now considered “generic.” Patentability is always … Read more
Caution: Contingent Limitations
If-Then logic is in most computerized inventions, but the Ex Parte Schulhauser case lets the examiner ignore the “Then” part in your … Read more
Contour vs GoPro: limiting “Alice” abstraction
SCOTUS’s “Alice” analysis encourages analyzing patent claims at a high level of abstraction. The Contour vs GoPro decision helps limit this. When … Read more