A further indication that an enhancement may have patentable and commercial value is if a feature enables access to new or additional applications or expands the use of an existing invention.

To be patentable, an invention must be unique and "teachable" — meaning you cannot patent something naturally occurring or unrepeatable, and your invention must be outlined through the patent in ...

The second key takeaway is that applications should be drafted with an eye on prong 2 of step 2A because it is highly unlikely that blockchain claims will be considered patentable under prong 1 of ...

At a June 2022 AI/ET Partnership meeting, participants presented conflicting views over whether AI is just another tool or if it can conceptualize patentable inventions or “contribute at the ...

The Supreme Court’s landmark decision Diamond v. Chakrabarty (1980) held that “Patentable subject matter includes . . . anything under the sun that is made by man.” ...

Patentability of inventions involving artificial intelligence can have an outsized impact on how companies in the health care space protect their intellectual property—patents in particular ...

This brings back memories of how the Australian courts used the same 1623 statute to effect a significant broadening of the types of inventions that were patentable in the decision in NRDC’s ...

And the patent office says if AI was the only one to develop the invention, if there were no people involved at all, that’s probably not patentable. So, AI can invent it, but they probably can ...

"DABUS" (which stands for "Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Science") is a piece of software designed to create patentable inventions. It's the keystone to Thaler's plan to ...

Courts have grappled with interpreting Section 101 of the Patent Act, which lays out the requirements for a patentable invention. The U.S. Supreme Court has said in two rulings that abstract ideas ...

One-minute read The patentability of software inventions still varies around the world, despite the influence of high-profile US cases such as Bilski and CLS v Alice on other jurisdictions. Three ...