Program agenda:
- How patent and copyright law can and cannot protect AI-assisted inventions;
- What other kinds of protection are available for AI-assisted outputs
- Practical meaning of current USPTO guidelines
- What impact does AI have on who is a Person of Skill in the Art (POSITA)?
- How do other IP rights interact with outputs of generative AI?
- Unpack legal and ethical challenges in determining inventorship
- Future outlook: Shaping polices and procedures for TTOs
Artificial Intelligence tools offer great promise for speeding the pace of innovation and their use is growing exponentially, but the wide range of IP issues need to be carefully considered by TTOs and IP practitioners.
U.S. law is developing rapidly to keep pace with the AI explosion, and as it stands today, a computer cannot be an author under copyright law or an inventor under patent law. But that doesn’t mean that AI-assisted inventions are unpatentable or will be left unprotected. It means that TTOs must carefully review AI system outputs and have procedures in place to confirm that patent claims meet the standard for human inventorship.
This webinar, led by Charles R. Macedo and Thomas Hart of the New York law firm Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP, is a must-see for tech transfer professionals, faculty inventors, and IP professionals.
The program will review the latest USPTO guidance, detail the effect of AI assistance on inventorship, define “significant contribution” for the human element requirement, and discuss what policies and procedures your TTO should be adopting to ensure compliance and avoid rejections.
