By Michael Borella — Last year, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a request for comments (RFC) on patenting artificial intelligence (AI) based inventions. Topics of the RFC included AI’s impact on inventorship and ownership, patent eligibility, disclosure, prior art, and the level of ordinary skill in the art. The USPTO received 99 comments from a variety of stakeholders. In parallel to that effort, the USPTO also released a second RFC related to the impact of AI on copyright, trademark, database protections, and trade secret law. Stakeholders provided a similar number of comments. With this feedback in hand,…
