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

You can now control your computer, phone, tablet with virtually anything ranging from a banana all the way to a wiggly bowl of jello, including living pets and human beings. All this with Makey Makey ...

The EU has spoken: the directive for the patenting of computer-implemented inventions is dead. But that does not mean the end for software-related patents, as long as patent attorneys consider all ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued new guidelines on Wednesday outlining when inventions created with the help of ...

MADISON, Ala. – Technology invented in Madison is transforming public school kids into computer programmers across the nation. The new technology is making it easier for rural schools to teach IT and ...

Increasingly, companies are using artificial intelligence to invent new methods and products. But can a named inventor be a non-human machine under the law? That depends on which country’s laws are ...

The Madras High Court has recently allowed an appeal by Ab Initio Technology LLC, a US-based company, against the Patent ...

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“The new test is expected to bring clarity to subject-matter determination of computer-implemented inventions in Canada.” Clearing the air on labyrinthine subject-matter eligibility standards for ...

Hardly a week goes by without the controversial issue of software patenting hitting the news. Particularly controversial are the business-method software patent filings that are inundating the U.S.