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AssociateBrandon helps individual inventors, small and medium sized businesses, and multinational corporations identify and protect their intellectual property both domestically and internationally. He primarily focuses on the ...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is now a part of U.S. design patent examination, but not in the way some practitioners may expect. The latest public USPTO materials do not identify a new, post-DesignVision AI tool dedicated to design patent examination. Instead, the more important development appears to be that DesignVision has moved from a newly announced search tool to a routine part of the design examination workflow.
The USPTO launched DesignVision in July 2025 as “the first artificial intelligence (AI)-based image search tool available to design patent examiners” through ... Read More ›
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- The Current State of 35 U.S.C. § 101 and Software Patents
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