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DABUS (Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience [1] [2] [3]) is an artificial intelligence (AI) system created by Stephen Thaler. It reportedly conceived of two novel products — a food container constructed using fractal geometry, which enables rapid reheating, and a flashing beacon for attracting attention in an emergency.
Patents, including appeals arising from an action against the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks under 35 U.S.C. § 145; The Little Tucker Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1346; Section 211 of the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970; Section 5 of the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973; Section 523 of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975; and
The Commissioner of Patents may refer to: Commissioner of Patents (Australia) Commissioner of Patents (Canada) Commissioner for Patents (US) who oversees the United States Patent and Trademark Office and reports to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property. List of people who have headed the United States Patent Office
Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation, 402 U.S. 313 (1971), is a decision of the United States Supreme Court holding that a final judgment in an infringement suit against a first defendant that a patent is invalid bars the patentee from relitigating the same patent against other defendants. [1]
The Supreme Court of the United States handed down ten per curiam opinions during its 2010 term, which began October 4, 2010 and concluded October 1, 2011. [1]Because per curiam decisions are issued from the Court as an institution, these opinions all lack the attribution of authorship or joining votes to specific justices.
The long history of patents and strong protection of patent holders contributes to abuse of the system by patent trolls, which are largely absent in other countries. [citation needed] The US also has an extensive body of case law comprising federal court precedents that have accumulated over more than 200 years.
Until Bilski v. Kappos [11] and Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International [12] about four decades later, Johnston was the only business-method patent case that the Supreme Court had so far decided. But the decision turns on obviousness rather than patent eligibility. Despite the fact that most of the pages of the government's brief on the merits ...
Diamond v. Chakrabarty, 447 U.S. 303 (1980), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with whether living organisms can be patented.Writing for a five-justice majority, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger held that human-made bacteria could be patented under the patent laws of the United States because such an invention constituted a "manufacture" or "composition of matter".