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USPTO Alert

USPTO announces public symposium on artificial intelligence and intellectual property

As announced in the Federal Register, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will hold a public symposium on artificial intelligence (AI) and intellectual property on March 27 at 10 a.m. PT virtually and in person at Loyola Marymount University Law School in Los Angeles. The symposium supports the USPTO directives under the president’s Executive Order 14110, “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.” 

Seating will be limited for in-person attendance. Those wishing to attend, virtually or in person, must register by March 22.

This event will feature panel discussions by experts in the fields of patent, trademark, and copyright law that focus on:

• Comparing copyright and patent law approaches to the type and level of human contribution needed to satisfy authorship and inventorship requirements
• Ongoing copyright litigation involving generative AI
• Laws and policy considerations surrounding name, image, and likeness (NIL) issues, including the intersection of NIL and generative AI

“Working closely with the Department of Commerce and the U.S. Copyright Office, the USPTO is taking the lead on building a framework that guides our Administration’s approach to artificial intelligence and its intersection with intellectual property,” said Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO.

For more information about this event, including updates as the event nears, please see our event page. You can also read the full text of this notice on the USPTO AI news and reports webpage.

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