USPTO AI/ET Partnership Series #3: AI-driven innovation

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Emerging Technologies (ET) Partnership Series will hold its next meeting virtually and in person at the Arts District Mansion in Dallas, Texas on Wednesday, February 8. This meeting is being held in collaboration with Dallas Bar Association (DBA) Intellectual Property (IP) section and State Bar of Texas IP section.

During the event, panelists from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and diverse stakeholders from academia, industry, and law firms will explore various IP policy issues with respect to AI-driven innovation. The meeting will also include a public listening session.

This event is free and open to the public, but in-person attendance is limited, so register early. Registrants must indicate whether they are requesting to speak at the public listening session. Persons seeking to speak at the listening session must register by February 2, 2023.

Agenda: A full agenda with speaker bios will be published on event series webpage prior to the day of the event. Currently, the event will include discussions on the following topics:

Panel 1: AI-driven innovation – The current state of play

From rapid drug discovery to utilizing AI to uncover novel ways of combining atomic and sub-atomic structures in order to develop new materials, AI is a driving force of innovation and change across diverse industries. This panel will do a deep dive into the current state of AI-driven innovation in different technology areas and potential IP considerations relating to these AI-driven innovations.

Panel 2: AI inventorship

Current U.S. law requires that an inventor must be a human. There is a growing consensus that AI is playing a greater role in the innovation process. However, the increasing role of machines, such as AI systems, in innovation and the invention-creation process raises questions of whether inventions made with contributions from a machine are eligible for patent protection. This panel will include perspectives from various stakeholders on the current state of AI technology in the invention creation process and how to address inventions created with significant AI contributions.

Panel 3: Unanticipated IP challenges from AI-driven innovation

As AI becomes more pervasive and inventors look toward state-of-the-art AI systems, there is concern about some of the unanticipated challenges from AI-driven innovation. This panel will discuss some of these challenges from an enforcement perspective. For example, what downstream impacts to IP enforcement and litigation arise from introducing black-box AI to the inventive process? Do applicants have to disclose AI-contributions in their patent applications to ensure validity of their patents? This panel will explore such questions to help identify the novel ways in which AI will shape tomorrow’s IP ecosystem.

Public Listening Session

The goal of the public listening session is to facilitate stakeholder feedback on the topics discussed during the three panels.

Requests to participate as a speaker in the listening session must include:

1. The name of the person desiring to participate;

2. The organization(s) that person represents, if any;

3. Contact information (telephone number and email); and

4. Information on the panel topic(s) from event

Speaking slots are limited; preference will be given to speakers wishing to address one of the panel topics. We will attempt to group speakers by topic. Topics and speakers will be announced a few days prior to the public listening session. Speakers are required to submit their remarks for the listening session in advance by email to [email protected].

Contact us

For questions regarding the event program, please contact [email protected].

For questions about registration, please contact the Texas Regional Office at 469-295-9000 or email [email protected].

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.

Continuing Legal Education (CLE): Applied for CLE credit in Texas.

Complimentary continuing legal education (CLE) credit is a DBA member benefit. If you are not a DBA member, you will be charged a non-member fee. Contact Araceli Rodriguez at [email protected] to remit payment.

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