On February 13, 2024, then-USPTO Director Vidal issued inventorship guidance for AI-assisted inventions; on November 28, 2025, new USPTO ...

USPTO issues new guidelines on patenting AI-assisted inventions, reaffirming that only humans can be legal inventors.

Since President Biden issued his Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has been investigating the ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today rescinded its AI Inventorship guidance issued in February 2024 under the ...

Vidal has served as head of the USPTO since being confirmed by the Senate in 2022. She oversaw a budget of $4.2 billion and more than 13,500 employees. Deputy Director Derrick Brent will succeed Vidal ...

New search algorithms for relevant prior art most excite the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s CIO right now. Filtering data into haystacks allowing patent examiners to more easily find what they’re ...

The interior of the USPTO headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, in 2019. (Antony-22 / Wikimedia Commons) The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office said this week that it intends to award an estimated $70 ...

The USPTO is set to require ID verification for all users of ‘uspto.gov’ platform The move has been praised as necessary to protect integrity of US register Experts add balance must be struck to not ...

IPWatchdog has learned that Will Covey, who has been serving as Deputy General Counsel and Director for the Office of Enrollment and Discipline at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), will be ...

Department of Commerce files trademark applications for USPTO name and logo Move follows “rapid increase in sophistication” of scams targeting USPTO users US trademark commissioner admits “it’s never ...

Patents are essential for driving pharmaceutical innovation, but they can also contribute to high drug prices for prolonged periods by delaying generic and biosimilar competition. One strategy that ...