Amicus briefs have now been posted to the USPTO site in Ex Parte Baurin, a 2025 rehearing decision of the PTAB with respect ...

We develop a high-precision classifier to measure artificial intelligence (AI) patents by fine-tuning PatentSBERTa on manually labeled data from the USPTO’s AI Patent Dataset. Our classifier ...

In a relief to startups engaged in innovation, the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks in India issued orders last Friday rejecting software patents in computer-related inventions ...

Stanford University law professor Mark Lemley asserts that nanotechnology “is the first new field in a century in which people started patenting the basic ideas at the outset.” In contrast to most ...

In October 2004, the US PTO announced it had created a new classification for nanotechnology patents - Class 977 - which would serve as a cross-reference to help examiners, among others, search prior ...

Panellists at the Managing IP US Patent Forum delved into the complexities and challenges of patenting artificial intelligence as the technology evolves Despite some governments taking huge steps to ...

"'In re Cellect' and the USPTO's proposed rule have the potential to fundamentally affect patent practice, particularly in the realm of terminal disclaimers filed to overcome ODP rejections," write ...

You've just invented the greatest product known to mankind—or at least you think so. And you know that you must quickly protect this brilliant idea with a patent because someone will surely steal it ...

“U.S. law provides three avenues for patenting cannabis, but each comes with its own potential pitfalls.” With cannabis now legal in some form across more than 30 states, the cannabis industry is on ...