Bloomberg Law: Biden AI Order Sets Patent Office Deadline On Invention Controls

The recent executive order on artificial intelligence issued by President Joe Biden gives the US Patent and Trademark Office four months to provide new guidance on AI’s role in inventions and less than a year to specify guidelines on intellectual property rights. “The listening tour needs to wind down,” said O’Melveny senior counsel Coke Morgan Stewart, a former PTO deputy director. “There’s a lot of concern in the inventor community that AI inventions are going to be considered abstract for some reason.”

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