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USPTO launches new AI Pilot for pre-examination utility application search
Daily NewsMonday, 13 October 2025Daniel van Herck132 viewsRead more...USPTO launches new AI Pilot for pre-examination utility application search. In furtherance of the USPTO's steadfast commitment to dramatically improve examination quality, response time, and efficiency, the agency today announced the launch of its Artificial Intelligence Search Automated Pilot (ASAP!) Program. The ASAP! Program will test the USPTO’s internal artificial intelligence (AI) tool’s eff ...
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Patent data reveals what companies are actually building with GenAI
Daily NewsFriday, 10 October 2025Daniel van Herck26 viewsRead more...An analysis of 2,398 generative AI patents filed between 2017 and 2023 shows that conversational agents like chatbots make up only 13.9 percent of all GenAI patent activity. Read more at Reddit
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Google Patent Helps You Fix Your Prompts
Daily NewsThursday, 12 June 2025Daniel van Herck622 viewsRead more...Google wants to help make those inputs a little sharper. The company is seeking to patent a system for “assisting users in interactions with large language models” that helps engineer prompts to achie ...
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An LLM is not (yet) a person skilled in the art (T 1193/23)
Daily NewsTuesday, 20 May 2025Daniel van Herck901 viewsRead more...In the new AI-age, where Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT can generate sophisticated textual answers in seconds, the relevance of AI to the patent industry is an active area of debate. The re ...
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EUIPO and OECD publish a report on counterfeit and pirated trade
Daily NewsThursday, 15 May 2025Daniel van Herck715 viewsRead more...The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have unveiled the results of their study Mapping Global Trade in Fakes 202 ...
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Patent Landscape Report - Occupational Health and Safety (OHS)
Daily NewsWednesday, 14 May 2025Daniel van Herck740 viewsRead more...This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the global patent landscape in the field of Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) technologies, focusing on three key areas: Prediction, Detection, and ...
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Nieuw digitaal platform toont kmo’s de meerwaarde van intellectuele eigendom
Daily NewsFriday, 17 June 2022Daniel van Herck977 viewsRead more...Uit Europees onderzoek blijkt dat ruim 90% van de ondernemers geen geregistreerde intellectuele eigendomsrechten heeft. Daarom lanceerden vijf Belgische en Nederlandse overheidsorganisaties op 26 apri ...