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Guest Post: Why Do Women Face Challenges in the Patent Process?

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About 86% of all patent applications are submitted by men or all-male teams. This underrepresentation of women gets worse as the patent approval process runs its course. This underrepresentation of women gets worse as the patent approval process runs its course. Why is this happening? limited professional networks).

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It is Time to Tell Your Eligibility Stories

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At the behest of several leading Senators, the USPTO has begun a study on the “Current State of Patent Eligibility Jurisprudence.” The agency would like input from various stakeholders, including inventors, owners, investors, licensees, users, and patent attorneys. Read more here: [link].

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PTO Revisits What is Patentable

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Patent and Trademark Office announced that the PTO would be revisiting the test for patent subject matter eligibility. A patent protects an invention. Things that are not patentable (by judicial exceptions) include laws of nature, natural phenomena, and abstract ideas. On Monday this week, the Director of the U.S.

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Surely You Must be Kidding, PTO?!? “No, and Don’t Call Me Shirley!” – The Seemingly Slapstick (But Yet Unfunny) World of Recent Patent Term Extension Decisions (PART 2)

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Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) Patent Term Extension (“PTE”) decisions under 35 U.S.C. § We note all of this FDA law in the context of a patent-related PTE post because FDA’s withdrawal decision has ramifications beyond the FDA world. Karst — Earlier this week, we posted Part 1 of our three-part series on U.S.

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Is it Hyperbole if it Accurately Describes an Absurd Reality

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Wow , lots of new amicus in the patent eligibility case of American Axle v. The trio argue that the current state of patent eligibility doctrine is “an unintelligible hash” causing significant systemic problems. Startups & Inventors for Jobs. Brief amici curiae of The Chicago Patent Attorneys filed.

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AI Systems May Invent, But Are They Inventors?

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Previously, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“Federal Circuit”) has found that a non-human may infringe patents. But can an AI system be a named inventor on a patent? Alternatively, if the Patent Act requires inventor(s) must be human, are AI-created inventions not patentable at all under the current statute?

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Patent Eligibility Jurisprudence

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The USPTO is seeking comments on “the state of patent eligibility jurisprudence” and how eligibility law impacts both innovation and investment-in-innovation. Submit a comment: [link]. The deadline for submissions is October 15, 2021. Due date for Submission: October 15, 2021. Brief for United States, HP Inc.