Patent Office to Reopen Comments on AI Inventorship Guidance

The US Patent and Trademark Office will allow more stakeholders to submit feedback on its recent guidance about how much human involvement is necessary to secure protection for AI-assisted inventions.

The PTO will consider additional comments as it continues to review its policy after initially setting a May 13 comment deadline for the February guidance, Director Kathi Vidal told Bloomberg Law Thursday during the Promoting Competition in AI event co-hosted by the US Department of Justice and Stanford Graduate School of Business in Palo Alto, Calif. Some parties missed the original deadline, although Vidal said she wasn’t aware of who. ...