Impact of the proliferation of AI on prior art and PHOSITA listening session

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 April 30, 2024, the USPTO published a Federal Register Notice requesting comments regarding the Impact of the Proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Prior Art, the Knowledge of a Person Having Ordinary Skill in the Art (PHOSITA), and Determinations of Patentability Made in View of the Foregoing. The purpose of the listening session is to obtain public input from stakeholders on the impact of the proliferation of AI on prior art and PHOSITA, as set forth in the questions presented in the Federal Register Notice of April 30, 2024.

The listening session will be held on July 25 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. ET virtually and in person at the National Inventors Hall of Fame Museum, USPTO headquarters, 600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, Virginia.


Agenda 

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Impact of the proliferation of AI on prior art and person having ordinary skill in the art (PHOSITA) listening session

National Inventors Hall of Fame Museum, USPTO Headquarters, Alexandria, Virginia

July 25, 2024

Impact of AI on prior art and PHOSITA listening session video Impact of AI on prior art and PHOSITA listening session slides

TimeTopicSpeaker
10-10:10 a.m.WelcomeChristyann Pulliam, Management Quality Assurance Specialist, TC2100, USPTO
10:10-10:20 a.m.Opening RemarksVaishali Udupa, Commissioner for Patents; USPTO
10:20-10:35 a.m.Overview of the RFC on Impact of AI on prior art and PHOSITASteve Fulk, Senior Legal Advisor, Office of Patent Legal Administration, USPTO
10:35-11:25 a.m.Listening Session 1

Jamie Lynne Simpson. Chief Policy Officer and Counsel, C4IP Council for Innovation Promotion

Joshua Davenport, Principal Shareholder, Banner Witcoff

Liza Vetinsky, Professor of Law, University of Maryland

Dr. David Sanker, SankerIP

Break

11:35 a.m.- 12:20 p.m.Listening Session 2

Michelle Aspen, Senior Patent Counsel, Unified Patents

Susan Krumplitsch, Partner, DLA Piper LLP

Todd Hopfinger, Director, Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox

John Villasenor, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Law, UCLA

Lunch Break

1:20-1:30 p.m.AI Patents Policy InitiativesMatthew Sked, Senior Legal Advisor, Office of Patent Legal Administration, USPTO
1:30-2:30 p.m.Listening Session 3

Thomas Marlow, Black Hills AI

Laura Sheridan, Head of Patent Policy, Google

Dennis Crouch, Judge C.A. Leedy Professor of Law, University of Missouri and Patently-O

Ronald Ventola, Counsel, Panitch Schwarze, Belisario & Nadel

Steven Henderson, CEO, BioReplicate

Break

2:40-3:40 p.m.Listening Session 4

Adi Sidapara, Co-founder, CEO, Gardenintel

William Pagan, Coats & Bennett, PLLC

Vini Jaiswal, Chair of Technical Advisory Board, Linux Foundation AI and Data

Dan Choi, Associate General Counsel and Chief Patent Counsel, Microsoft

Salar Basiri

Jonathan Osha, Chair AI Task Force, American Intellectual Property Law Association

3:40-3:50 p.m.Closing remarksCharles Kim, Deputy Commissioner for Patents, USPTO

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