Valve Corp. dodged a prolific inventor’s counterclaim after a federal judge dismissed the patent infringement allegation concerning a method for a cloud-based system.

New guidance from the USPTO says AI systems 'regardless of their sophistication, cannot be named as inventors or joint ...

Netlist Inc. CEO Chun “Chuck” Hong says his 25-year-old semiconductor firm will continue to press the attack in patent ...

MERCK SERONO S.A. v. HOPEWELL PHARMA VENTURES, INC. - Before Hughes, Linn, and Cunningham. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

Years after a photogenic macaque snapped a photo of itself on a wildlife photographer’s unguarded camera, and PETA filed a federal lawsuit to give the monkey the copyright for his viral selfies, the ...

The US Patent and Trademark Office has drawn a bright line around who can be an inventor, and it is not generative AI. By ...

On November 13, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (court) found that patent applicant, Inline Plastics Corp.

"AI systems, including generative AI and other computational models, are instruments used by human inventors," Squires wrote.

Artificial intelligence has become part of everyday life, but as the technology rapidly advances, federal agencies are trying to adopt new standards for its use. One agency, the United States Patent ...

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I’ve written about a conflict that exists between inventors and patent attorneys. I’ve been a little hard on them, even. But there’s more than one side to every story of course. With that in mind, I ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. According to a recent decision by the U.S. Patent and ...