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- Judicial Conduct and Disability Committee Has Its Say, Denies Judge Newman’s Latest Request for Review
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- Why the Alice Test is Stupid, Part V: The Goalposts Keep Moving
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Month: May 2024
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By Michael Borella — This Internet has gone through many revolutions, technical and otherwise. Each time it has emerged stronger and more robust than before. One can trace the origins of the Internet to the connection of four computers in 1969. The advent of email a few years later, the standardization of TCP/IP as its…
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By Michael Borella and Joshua Rich — It seems like every week brings a new dispute over artificial intelligence (AI), mostly focused around new features and uses of generative AI. Last week was no exception, with OpenAI unveiling human-like voices soon being available in its GPT-4o multimodal language model. In what would turn out to…
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By Kevin E. Noonan – Suspended Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's lawsuit (see "Judge Newman and the On-Going Attempts to Remove Her from the Federal Circuit") against Chief Judge Kimberly Moore, and Circuit Judges Sharon Prost and Richard Taranto (in their roles as members of the Special Committee of the Judicial Council of the Federal Circuit responsible for…
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By Joshua Rich — As discussed at length in a previous post on this blog (see "USPTO Proposed Rule Change to Terminal Disclaimer Practice"), the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has proposed amending the form of terminal disclaimer to be used by patent applicants. Specifically, it proposes requiring terminal disclaimers filed to obviate nonstatutory (or…
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By Andrew Velzen — On May 10, 2024, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced a proposed rule change to terminal disclaimer practice.[1] Unfortunately, the proposed change appears to further weaken issued patents in which terminal disclaimers have been filed and make obtaining robust patent protection more difficult and uncertain in the future. Present Nonstatutory…
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By Michael Borella and Yuri Levin-Schwartz* — The recent rise in generative artificial intelligence (AI) models has granted powerful tools to the public that enable the creation of realistic, yet fake, images, sounds, and videos. Though more than six months remain until the U.S. general election in November, these tools have already been used to…
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By Kevin E. Noonan – The "genome revolution" over the past 30 years has resulted in the elucidation of several species, both domesticated (see, e.g., "The Genetic Basis of Coat Variation in Dogs"; "Further and More Detailed Study of Domestic Cat Genome"; "Chicken Origins Established (But Philosophical Questions Remain)"; "Rose Genome Reveals Its Exquisite Complexities") and not…
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