In a paper published in Nature Biotechnology, three Stanford University-affiliated co-authors, including Stanford Law School Professor Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, tackle an issue of growing importance ...

IntroductionIn 2025, the number of PCT international applications filed through the World Intellectual Property Organization ...

In an ongoing saga playing out in Canada and in courts around the world, Stephen Thaler has appealed to the Federal Court of Canada an underlying decision that refused to acknowledge an artificial ...

March 24, 2025 - Just as it is revolutionizing many areas of the world, Artificial Intelligence is also revolutionizing patent law. In recent years, there has been much focus on whether AI-generated ...

The full text of the University Patent Policy can be found in the Faculty Handbook, Section 3.7.5. Excerpts from this Policy have been included in the FAQs below. For the purposes of this Policy, an ...

With the advent of generative artificial intelligence (or “GenAI”), many companies have begun to shift their innovation strategies to incorporate and rely on GenAI tools. These tools can be powerful ...

At its core, a patent is a contract between an inventor, who agrees to disclose detailed information about their invention to the public, and the state, which grants them exclusive rights to that ...

“The quantum-AI invention stack will test patent doctrine and practice, but it does not make the patent bargain obsolete.” A recent Simons Institute presentation by Caltech professor Hsin-Yuan Huang ...

“[C]ourts today must recognize the increasingly routine nature of AI tools across many fields. The sophisticated capabilities that AI provides to ordinary practitioners cannot be dismissed simply ...

The human imagination is a magnificent, unpredictable beast. While some inventors have gifted us with the wheel, the light bulb, and the internet, others have channeled their creative energy into ...