Cellect v. Vidal and the future of Patent Term Adjustment
The U.S. Supreme Court is currently considering Cellect v. Vidal, a case with potential impact on many patents.Cellect is the owner of 4 patents being challenged, each of which is…
PTO Guidance on AI and Inventorship
Questions about who, or what, can claim inventorship on AI-assisted inventions have been tested in the last few years. The USPTO has issued a 27-page pdf to give guidance on…
Speeding Up Patent Prosecution
We have uploaded our latest FishFAQ™ video to YouTube. This video covers various options for speeding up patent prosecution. You can watch it on a small scale here or follow the…
Creativity: Human and AI
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 of the Copyright Office's…
If I had a dollar for every time…
…Thaler challenged the legal system to grant intellectual property rights to AI systems…Thaler loses case for copyrightArtificial intelligence’s most persistent IP rights advocate, Dr Stephen Thaler, has again lost a…
How to Handle Rejection
We have uploaded a new video covering Rejections. Hearing that your patent application has been rejected can be a disheartening thing. But watch the video to find out how rejections…
A Tale of Trademark law, the Rogers test, and Parody
The Supreme Court has been busy lately with IP cases. Just recently, the Supreme Court sided with Jack Daniel’s by ruling that the lower court got it wrong when it…
Protecting the Little Guy… or Bad Patents?
The USPTO is considering modifications to the rules for inter partes review (IPR) and post grant review (PGR) proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Ostensibly this is…
Did Fair Use Get a Face-Lift?
In 1981, Lynn Goldsmith photographed the music artist Prince for Newsweek magazine. 15 years later, she licensed one of those photos to Vanity Fair as a single-use artist’s reference for…
PCT Application Video
We have uploaded a new video talking about the issues involved in enforcing patents. You can find the video on YouTube here as part of our ongoing FishFAQ series of explanations of intellectual property.We…