Patenting the AI pipeline: intellectual property for AI before standardisation | IAM

Over the past few years, and after decades as little more than a mathematical curiosity, useful industrial applications of AI have become commonplace.

Editing 3D Content: Non-technical - Intellectual Property - Germany

This decision relates to a European patent application for a system and method that enables users without any skills specific to 3D software to edit 3D content.

Notorious Patent Troll, Erich Spangenberg, Has a New Target

Erich Spangenberg, who used bogus patents to scam his way into many millions of dollars ('protection' money), enters the blockchain

IP Edge entity Orbit Licensing patent challenged — Unified Patents

On November 9, 2021, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination against U.S. Patent 9,578,040 , owned and asserted by Orbit Licensing, an IP Edge entity. The '040 patent is generally directed to packet communications, including...

Endpoint IP entity Eighth Street patent invalidated in Reexam — Unified Patents

On November 15, 2021, Eighth Street Solutions filed a supplemental reply cancelling all claims of U.S. Patent 7,664,924 , after the USPTO (on Oct. 5, 2021), issued a final office action rejecting all claims of the ‘924 patent. Eighth Street...

SynKloud Technologies abandons own Federal Circuit appeal — Unified Patents

On November 12, 2021, SynKloud Technologies filed a motion to dismiss its Federal Circuit appeal. Unified had won on all issues at the PTAB in IPR2019-01655 , resulting in all claims of SynKloud’s U.S. Patent 9,098,526 being found unpatentable....

Lars Wirzenius (@liw@toot.liw.fi)

Equating "being innovative" and "having patents" is being intellectually lazy at best.

Bilibili: Another Chinese Company Joins the Open Invention Network - FOSS Force

Bilbili becomes the third large China-based video centered social network to throw its patents into Open Invention Network's kitty this year.

Sufficiency Of Disclosure For Artificial Intelligence Patents – U.S. Case Example - Intellectual Property - United States

In an earlier article, we compared the sufficiency of disclosure for Artificial Intelligence (AI) patents in the U.S. and the European Patent Office (EPO)

Techrights is for Whistleblowers and Suppressed Information Which Other Sites Refuse (or Are Afraid/Shy) to Publish

We strive to publish material that other sites cannot or would not; our focus is software patents and Free software, but we're open to anything else in the realms of tech, rights, and law

Techrights is for Whistleblowers and Suppressed Information Which Other Sites Refuse (or Are Afraid/Shy) to Publish

We strive to publish material that other sites cannot or would not; our focus is software patents and Free software, but we're open to anything else in the realms of tech, rights, and law

Bilibili: Another Chinese Company Joins the Open Invention Network - FOSS Force

Bilbili becomes the third large China-based video centered social network to throw its patents into Open Invention Network's kitty this year.

Time to fight back against Big Tech's IP assault | Opinion

That a tech giant would copy the intellectual property of a smaller, less powerful firm is hardly surprising—in fact, it happens all the time.

Controlling An Avatar: Non-Technical - Media, Telecoms, IT, Entertainment - Germany

In this decision, which might be interesting for game developers, the European Patent Office refused to grant a software patent on a method for controlling an avatar.

Webinar on Recent IP Major Issues in South Korea

Lee & Ko IP will be offering a series of webinars on "Recent IP Major Issues in South Korea" on November 16 and 18, 2021. Four sessions are being offered in the series: November 16: • 11:00 am to 11:30 am (EST) -- Major Court Precedents and Recent...

Dolby HEVC/AV1 patent held invalid in China — Unified Patents

On November 11, 2021, the China National Intellectual Property Administration declared claims 1-4, 6-7, and 12 of CN1663258 , owned by Dolby International AB , invalid. CN1663258 has been designated essential to the HEVC Advance pool and ...

GEVC EPO Patent Challenged — Unified Patents

On September 30, 2021, Unified filed an opposition proceeding against EP 3151566 B1 , currently owned by GE Video Compression, LLC . The EP ’566 patent is part of a family purportedly essential to HEVC and part of the Access Advance patent...