US Patent Office issues new guidelines for AI-assisted inventions. The new director of the USPTO was busy during the last week of November – busy upsetting the robots of the future. John Squires stated that the patent office considers generative AI systems to be “analogous to laboratory equipment, computer software, research databases, or any other...Read More

The USPTO launched the Automated Pre-Examination Search Pilot Program on 2025 October 20, as a first attempt at integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the patent examination workflow. We are fans of AI and using pilot programs, but in this case, with one exception, we don’t recommend it. If you do want to try it, then...Read More

The Canadian Commissioner of Patents published a decision rejecting a patent application by an artificial intelligence system and naming the AI as an inventor. Keeping with established practice, the commissioner accepted the advice of members of the Patent Appeal Board that an artificial intelligence system cannot be named as an “inventor”. The applicant, Stephen L....Read More