There’s been no shortage of bold claims about AI in the legal world. Major platforms now promise faster research, better answers, and—perhaps most ambitiously—tools that
A recent New York Times article highlights something striking: after years of warnings about A.I.’s social harms, job loss, misinformation, cheating, none of those concerns
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
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
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
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 DABUS Litigation Is a Personhood Fight Disguised as a Patent Fight Dr. Stephen Thaler has lost another case trying to have his DABUS AI
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
…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,
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
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
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