A federal court ruled last week in Thaler v. Vidal (4th Cir. Aug. 5, 2022), that an artificial intelligence (AI) system cannot be listed as a named inventor on a patent application, affirming earlier rulings from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the lower court in the Eastern District of Virginia.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced last week that it has discovered that unauthorized users have attempted to hack into its online trademark system to attempt to make unauthorized changes to active trademark applications and registrations. They have also tried to register marks owned by others on third-party brand registries.

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According to recent documents made public by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) IBM has applied for a patent for a system that would use distributed ledger technology to address privacy and security concerns associated with the increasing usage of drones in both commercial and recreational applications. In the application for this patent, IBM’s