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New Rules on Patenting AI-Assisted Inventions

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued new guidance saying inventions created with the help of generative AI can be ...
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued updated examination guidance (“New Guidance”) on inventorship in applications ...
On November 26, 2025, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued new inventorship guidance (formally published on November 28) clarifying ...
USPTO issues new guidelines on patenting AI-assisted inventions, reaffirming that only humans can be legal inventors.
The US Patent Office has determined how inventions developed with the help of AI can be commercially protected. A natural ...
New guidance from the USPTO says AI systems 'regardless of their sophistication, cannot be named as inventors or joint ...
PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there should be an electronic diagnostic tool for electric clothes washing and drying machines," said an inventor, from Leona, Texas, "so I invented the DIAGNOSTIC TOOL FOR ...
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "As a registered nurse, I thought there could be an easier way to care for patients receiving multiple IV ...
AI can brainstorm, analyze, and suggest ideas, but only a real human has to be the one who actually conceives the invention.
"AI systems, including generative AI and other computational models, are instruments used by human inventors," Squires wrote.
Oliver Mayer, chairman of an international expert jury assessing the inventions, said they were struck by both the teenager ...
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today rescinded its AI Inventorship guidance issued in February 2024 under the ...