Category: Synthetic Examination
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Preexamination III: Conception, Inventorship, and the Limits of Landscape
Series note. This is the third post in the Preexamination series. Start with Preexamination: Seeing the Art Before the Office Does and Preexamination II: Landscape For Drafting Invention requires conception U.S. inventorship requires invention and invention requires conception. The USPTO’s revised inventorship guidance states the governing standard in the Federal Circuit’s terms and quotes them…
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Preexamination: Seeing the Art Before the Office Does
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in AI assisted patent analysis, AI assisted Patent Generation, America Invents Act, Artificial Intelligence and Patents, Artificial Intelligence for Examination of Patent Applications, Artificial Intelligence for Patents, claim amendments, claim challenges, Examination Automation, inter partes review, IPR, Large Language Model (LLM), Machine Learning (ML), Patent generation to avoid validity challenges, Patent Portfolio Management, Post Grant Review, Preexamination, prior art, PTAB Patent Trials, reexamination generally, Synthetic ExaminationFor as long as people have recorded what they know, two capabilities have raced each other: the rate at which we generate information, and the ability to find and make sense of what we already have. Neither has held the lead for long. Every leap in one exposes the inadequacy of the other. The field…