After a mysterious and lengthy disappearance, the historic patent documents for the Wright Brothers' groundbreaking flying machine have finally resurfaced and are now at home in the National Archives ...
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published a decision on April 22 that a machine cannot be named an inventor for a patent, because inventorship is limited to a natural person.
I’ve been litigating patent cases involving slot machines for the past decade, and there are still a lot of misconceptions about what aspects of a gaming machine can be patented and why these patents ...
WORKS AND WHY THIS MEANS SO MUCH TO NICK. BUT TO MAKE A BETTER TATTOO WAS ALWAYS THE GOAL. GREENSBURG NATIVE NICK CRISTOFANO HAS BEEN BUZZING AWAY AT CLIENTS PERFECTING HIS CRAFT FOR 28 YEARS. HE ...
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There’s a strong case to be made for allowing machines to invent other machines. We recently examined the logic and legality behind the notion of artificial intelligence (AI) gaining the ability to ...
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Video streaming giant Netflix Inc. is suing Broadcom Inc. over virtual machine patents owned by the company’s subsidiary VMware Inc. According to the lawsuit filed with a California federal court by ...
Starbucks filed a fresh patent for a machine that enables workers to make customized drinks quicker. Modifications drive customers to Starbucks and bring in high profits, but cause headaches for staff ...
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What are the arguments against allowing artificial intelligence (AI) to patent inventions? Following initial surveys of the issue, in our last piece we examined the arguments in favor of machine ...