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AIUSPTO Provides Clarity Respecting AI Assisted Inventions: Human Involvement is Key
This article highlights the essential aspects of recent guidelines issued by the USPTO on inventions assisted by artificial intelligence. The guidelines incorporate recent guidance from the US courts that inventors must be natural persons and that AI systems do not qualify as inventors.
3 Apr, 2024
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CIPO Starts Using AI to Process Trademark Applications
In a pilot program intended to address the major backlog of pending trademark applications, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office ('CIPO') has started using artificial intelligence to conduct preliminary examinations of the associated goods and services identified in pending applications
29 Apr, 2022
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Artificial Intelligence: New Questions for Copyright Law
On December 1st, 2021, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office registered an artificial intelligence tool as a co-author for an artistic work. This marks the first time a non-human has been attributed copyright authorship in Canada and raises multiple policy questions.
29 Mar, 2022
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