Patent attorney blog: patent, trademark and copyright law

As an inventor, it is important to disclose your ideas in writing.

USPTO Director Squires issued a precedential decision, further opening the door for patents on AI inventions.

The courts have spent a decade telling inventors their ideas are “abstract.”

In Recentive Analytics vs Fox, the Federal Circuit determined that absent more, machine learning methods are now considered “generic.”

If-Then logic is in most computerized inventions, but the Ex Parte Schulhauser case lets the examiner ignore the “Then” part in your method claims.

SCOTUS’s “Alice” analysis encourages analyzing patent claims at a high level of abstraction.

In the recent Trinity vs.

LLM (Large Language Model) and AI (artificial intelligence) inventions are patentable in the US.

What is a terminal disclaimer?

Copyright Merch or trademark Merch?