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This page lists the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) activity concerning artificial intelligence (AI) policy through reports, federal register notices, news, and information.
Reports
- USPTO report: Inventing AI – Tracing the diffusion of AI within U.S. patents
- USPTO report: Public Views on AI and IP Policy
Federal Register Notices (FRNs)
- 2024 Guidance Update on Patent Subject Matter Eligibility, Including on Artificial Intelligence (2024 AI SME update, effective July 17, 2024)
- Request for Comments Regarding the Impact of the Proliferation of Artificial Intelligence on Prior Art, the Knowledge of a Person Having Ordinary Skill in the Art, and Determinations of Patentability Made in View of the Foregoing (April 2024)
- Guidance: Use of Artificial Intelligence-Based Tools in Practice before the Patent and Trademark Office (April 2024)
- Inventorship Guidance on AI-assisted Inventions (February 2024)
- USPTO AI/ET Partnership: Public Meeting on Artificial Intelligence Tools and Data (August 2023)
- AI Inventorship Notice of Public AI Listening Session - West Coast (April 2023)
- AI Inventorship Notice of Public AI Listening Session - East Coast (April 2023)
- Request for Comments on AI and Inventorship (February 2023)
- Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies Partnership (June 2022)
- Request for Comments on Patenting AI Inventions (August 2019)
- Request for Comments on IP Protection for AI Innovation (October 2019)