How the USPTO Solved AI Inventorship by Looking the Other Way
For a while there, it looked like we had some rules.Back in 2022, the Federal Circuit decided Thaler v. Vidal and told us, pretty clearly, that inventors under U.S. patent…
AI’s secret ingredient: Text, Data, and Fair Use
Text and data mining (TDM) is basically grabbing lots of data from the internet. From that data, large language models and AI extract patterns and can generate text.Accessing large amounts…
USPTO Clarifies AI and Machine Learning Patent Eligibility
The USPTO issued a memorandum on Aug 2, 2025 to help examiners assess subject matter eligibility in software-related inventions, especially those involving AI and machine learning. The memo does not…
Fair Use and AI Training: Buy It or Bye-Bye
A recent court decision gave AI developers a roadmap for staying out of copyright trouble—and a big flashing warning sign for what not to do.The case: Anthropic, the folks behind…
When a Patent Case Is Really a Personhood Case
Dr. Stephen Thaler has lost another case to have his DABUS AI system recognized as a patent holder—this time before the Canadian Patent Appeal Board. Every loss cites essentially the…
AI Training, Fair Use, and Meta
We posted an article recently covering the Copyright Office’s report on AI training and fair use.Just to review quickly, Fair Use is the provision of copyright law that allows for…
Copyright Office Report on AI Training and Fair Use
Can AI systems use copyrighted materials under the fair use doctrine?The fair use doctrine is a provision of copyright law that allows for limited usage of copyrighted material in certain…
Who Gets Credit When AI Invents? A Look at the History—and Future—of Inventorship
For centuries, governments have tried to encourage innovation by offering inventors something valuable in return: ownership. The earliest forms of state-recognized intellectual property—like patents—were meant to reward people for coming…
Federal Circuit to AI Innovators: Generic Machine Learning Isn’t Enough for a Patent
In a closely watched decision, the Federal Circuit just made it clear: simply applying machine learning to a new domain—without improving the ML itself—won’t get you a patent.In Recentive Analytics,…
AI and Copyright: Court Rules Against Fair Use in Training AI Models
On February 11, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware delivered a landmark decision in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH v. Ross Intelligence Inc., ruling that the…