How the USPTO Solved AI Inventorship by Looking the Other Way
January 2, 2026
The Federal Circuit Clarifies: Only Humans Can Be Inventors For a while there, it looked like we had some rules. Back in 2022, the Federal
AI’s secret ingredient: Text, Data, and Fair Use
September 15, 2025
Data Mining Includes Copyrighted Materials Text and data mining (TDM) means collecting large volumes of data from the internet. From that data, large language models
USPTO Clarifies AI and Machine Learning Patent Eligibility
August 26, 2025
Background: USPTO Issues New AI Eligibility Memo The USPTO issued a memorandum on Aug 2, 2025. This was to help examiners assess subject matter eligibility
Fair Use and AI Training: Buy It or Bye-Bye
August 20, 2025
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.
When a Patent Case Is Really a Personhood Case
August 7, 2025
The DABUS Litigation Is a Personhood Fight Disguised as a Patent Fight Dr. Stephen Thaler has lost another case trying to have his DABUS AI
AI Training, Fair Use, and Meta
July 2, 2025
What Is Fair Use? We recently covered the Copyright Office’s report on AI training and fair use. Fair Use is a part of copyright law
Copyright Office Report on AI Training and Fair Use
June 16, 2025
Can AI Use Copyrighted Material Under Fair Use? Can AI systems rely on the fair use doctrine when training on copyrighted works? That question sits
Who Gets Credit When AI Invents? A Look at the History—and Future—of Inventorship
May 5, 2025
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
Federal Circuit to AI Innovators: Generic Machine Learning Isn’t Enough for a Patent
April 23, 2025
In a closely watched decision, the Federal Circuit delivered a clear message. Simply applying machine learning to a new domain is not enough. Unless the
AI and Copyright: Court Rules Against Fair Use in Training AI Models
February 26, 2025
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
USPTO AI subject matter eligibility guidance
August 13, 2024
Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/07/17/2024-15377/2024-guidance-update-on-patent-subject-matter-eligibility-including-on-artificial-intelligence The US Patent Office continues to issue guidance on subject matter eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101. This latest July guidance addresses AI-assisted
PTO Guidance on AI and Inventorship
April 18, 2024
Rising Questions About AI-Assisted Inventorship in U.S. Patent Law Questions about who, or what, can claim inventorship on AI-assisted inventions have been tested in the
Creativity: Human and AI
August 31, 2023
Dr. Stephen Thaler is basically challenging the need for the ‘human’ restriction in the law. In the recent case of Thaler v Perlmutter, he requested reconsideration
If I had a dollar for every time…
August 31, 2023
…Thaler challenged the legal system to grant intellectual property rights to AI systems… Thaler loses case for copyright Artificial intelligence’s most persistent IP rights advocate,
Should Patents be Granted to AI “Inventions”?
June 14, 2022
The DABUS Case and the Question of AI Inventorship On June 6, 2022 the Federal Circuit heard the oral arguments in the future landmark case
Artificial Intelligence as Inventor
January 10, 2022
What is DABUS and How Did It Invent An AI machine program called DABUS was created as a series of neural networks trained with general
Can an AI machine be an inventor?
October 20, 2020
Current Patent Office Position on AI Inventors Wow, fascinating issue, this one. For now the short answer is a simple “no”. And several patent offices