AI Inventorship Listening Session - East Coast

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AI and inventorship

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) plays an important role in incentivizing and protecting innovation, including innovation enabled by artificial intelligence (AI), to ensure continued U.S. leadership in AI and other emerging technologies (ET).

On February 14, 2023, the USPTO published a Federal Register Notice (FRN) requesting comments regarding AI and inventorship. The USPTO is now announcing an AI inventorship public listening session on April 25, 2023. 

The purpose of this listening session is to seek stakeholder input on the current state of AI technologies and inventorship issues that may arise in view of the advancement of such technologies, as set forth in the questions posed in the February 14, 2023 FRN.

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Agenda

All times listed are in ET. Questions or comments related to the agenda and event series can be submitted in advance to aipartnership@uspto.gov.

 

Time (ET)

Topic

Speaker

10:30 am – 10:35 am

Welcome

Meredith Schoenfeld, Associate Solicitor, Office of General Counsel

10:35 am – 10:40 am

Opening Remarks

Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO

10:40 am – 10:50 am

Overview of AI Inventorship RFC

Nalini Mummalaneni, Senior Legal Advisor, Office of Patent Legal Administration 

10:50 am – 10:55 am

Inventorship Hypothetical

 

Meredith Schoenfeld, Associate Solicitor, Office of General Counsel

10:55 am - 12:15 pm

Listening Session 1

  • Prof. John Villasenor, UCLA Law 
  • Anthony Curro. IBM 
  • Corey Salsberg, NOVARTIS 
  • Rama Elluru, SCSP 
  • Prof. David Levine, ELON Law  
  • James Gatto, SheppardMullin 
  • Dr. Bijan Tadayon, ZAC 
  • George Summerfield, K&L Gates 

12:15 pm - 12:45 pm

Lunch Break

 

12:45 pm – 12:50 pm

 Brief Overview of the JPTOS

James Choi, Editor in Chief, Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society

12:50 pm - 1:50 pm

Listening Session 2

  • Kate Gaudry, IP Prism 
  • Prof. Joshua Sarnoff, DePaul, College of Law 
  • Prof. Lolita Darden, GW Law 
  • Mr. Morgan Reed, ACT | The App Association 
  • Mr. Pramod Misra, Unifi.ai 
  • Mr. Barry Schindler, GreenbergTraurig 

1:50 pm – 1:55 pm

Break

 

1:55 pm – 2:55pm

Listening Session 3

  • Robin Feldman, UC Law 
  • Dr. Saied Tadayon, ZAC 
  • Prof. Dennis Crouch, University of Missouri School of Law 
  • Dr. Ian Schick, Specifio 
  • Mr. Ivan Deleon 
  • Sierra Imari Arnold, The Gen Z Exec 

2:55 pm – 3:00 pm

Closing Remarks

Jerry Ma, Director of Emerging Technology, Office of the Chief Information Officer

 

Speaker bios

 

Resources

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    Contact us

    • For questions regarding the AI/ET Inventorship FRN, please contact Aleksandr Kerzhner, Supervisory Patent Examiner, 571-270-1760, or Srilakshmi Kumar, Supervisory Patent Examiner, 571-272-7769. 
    • For questions about registration, please contact aipartnership@uspto.gov.

    Accessibility accommodation

    Accessibility

    If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation, please submit your request to the contact information listed above.

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