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🚀 Innovating Standards: Embracing Essential Patents 🔍 Exploring the value and implications of Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) at the European Forum on Industrial Property. 💡 AI & Innovation: Habip Asan highlights AI's role in fostering creativity and addressing industrial protection challenges. 📉 Patent Holders: Recognizing their 'weak link' status, advocating for transparency to drive innovation. 🤝 Collaborative Agreements: 50 companies under Fair Standards Alliance investing $180B in SEPs to fuel innovation. 🔍 Trust Issues: Lack of transparency and risk of power abuse, urging fairness to avoid hindering business growth. 📌 Germany’s Example: Patent validity resolved by Munich Patent Court, but complexities remain. 🔑 FRAND Criteria: Importance of fair terms and setting clear standard criteria. Let’s push for a fair, transparent, and innovative future in patents! #Innovation #Patents #AI #BusinessGrowth

Lathrop GPM is thrilled to share that several of our intellectual property clients are included in Harrity & Harrity, LLP's 2024 AI Patent 100 list of innovators! Developed by Harrity Patent Analytics, the AI Patent 100 is a resource for patent insights in the artificial intelligence space highlighting the top 100 entities securing AI-related U.S. utility patents annually. Our growing mechanical, electrical and computer sciences patent team includes practitioners steeped in experience with AI technologies involving various machine learning models and techniques. These skilled practitioners help some of the world’s top innovators protect IP in the United States and abroad. View the full AI Patent 100 here: https://bit.ly/3QaJsFq #AI #Innovation #Patents

🌟 Roundtable Insights: AI’s Impact on Patent Practice 🌟 Yesterday, at the 50th anniversary celebration of Bundesverband Deutscher Patentanwälte e.V. in Berlin, an engaging roundtable discussion on the transformative power of AI in the patent system took place! 🎤✨ Moderated by our CVO, Dr. Christian A. Mohr, the panel included esteemed experts Anna von Berg (Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon), Frank Remmertz, Mareike Simone Kleemeier, Karolyne Hahn, and Dr. Jan-Christian Schütte (Siemens). Together, they explored the profound impact of AI on patent practice, from algorithms to patents. The discussion highlighted: - The current capabilities and limitations of AI in patent drafting and innovation management. - the transformative capacity of AI in the patent law firm and patent department - Real-world applications and case studies demonstrating AI’s potential. - The question of need for professional regulations, transparency, and protection of secrets A big thank you to all the panelists and attendees for the lively and insightful exchange! We look forward to continuing the conversation and driving innovation forward. 🙌 #BDPA #InnovationUnleashed #ArtificialIntelligence #PatentAttorneys #TWIP #Innovation #PatentSystem #AI

As national patent offices deal with more #machinelearning and #AI based inventions some interesting divergences in approaches are becoming apparent. An article which I wrote in IAM with Marie-Claude Pellegrini and Hendrik Bahre looks at this in more detail and how the approach differs in the UK, Germany and France.

𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗜𝗣𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸: the USPTO update on patents to address innovation in critical and emerging technologies, including in artificial intelligence (AI). Ans a new EPO study shows 40% of inventions in water-related technologies come from European applicants. https://lnkd.in/e9w9RDJ7   #intellectualproperty #ip #patents #patentdata #trademarks

💡 Is manual patent monitoring holding back your team’s productivity? Georg Fischer, a leader in industrial innovation, faced the same challenge—hundreds of patents to review, taking time away from crucial R&D work. So, how did they turn things around? By implementing IamIP's AI Patent Categorizer, Georg Fischer streamlined their entire patent monitoring process, cutting down manual reviews and boosting efficiency. Want to know the details? Download the case study to discover how they saved time, and enhanced their patent analysis. #patentmonitoring #patents #casestudy https://lnkd.in/de6HjAGq

Thanks to (from left to right) Robert Plotkin, Mark Vallone and Wen Xie, for a great conversation during our 2nd annual patent portfolio management program about building a software patent portfolio in the United States, with particular emphasis on the challenges unique to artificial intelligence as an invention and using AI as a tool to facilitate innovation. #ipwatchdog #ai #artificialintelligence #patent #patents

Sterne Kessler Directors Carla Ji Eun Kim and Olga Partington will host a KnowledgeBridge Session "Artificial Intelligence and the U.S. Patent Ecosystem: Current Challenges and What to Watch on the Horizon" at the 2024 Consero IP Forum for Life Sciences on December 5, 2025. https://lnkd.in/e-mZDgA9 This session will focus on: ✅ Artificial Intelligence assisted invention: inventor and practitioner pitfalls ✅ AI-generated prior art: sources and tips to overcome ✅ AI-based search and examination: protecting your confidential information in-house, with vendors, and through patent offices #AI #LifeSciences #Patent

Well done Iprova and Julian Nolan for taking an active role in this time of disruptive innovation and where AI is here to stay and a tool we need to control and make best possible use of to drive innovation as the speed of knowledge acquisition has dramatically increased. #innovation #patents #artificialintelligence

My Foley colleague, Matthew Horton, will be participating in the panel "AI and the U.S. Patent Landscape" at the Patent Quality Week 2024. This panel will discuss critical issues that U.S. policymakers and regulators must carefully consider when defining what emerging AI means for the U.S. patent system. Click below to learn more and to register. #Patent #ArtificialIntelligence #IntellectualProperty