"There is some irony in using AI bots, which are often trained on copyrighted material for which AI firms have shown little regard, to assess the validity of new #patents"
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/20/us_patent_office_ai/?td=keepreading
Also, if it's free, I'm guessing applicants will be the product...
"An increasing number of scholars, policymakers and grassroots communities argue that artificial intelligence (AI) research—and computer-vision research in particular—has become the primary source for developing and powering mass surveillance. Yet, the pathways from computer vision to surveillance continue to be contentious. Here we present an empirical account of the nature and extent of the surveillance AI pipeline, showing extensive evidence of the close relationship between the field of computer vision and surveillance. Through an analysis of computer-vision research papers and citing patents, we found that most of these documents enable the targeting of human bodies and body parts. Comparing the 1990s to the 2010s, we observed a fivefold increase in the number of these computer-vision papers linked to downstream surveillance-enabling patents. Additionally, our findings challenge the notion that only a few rogue entities enable surveillance. Rather, we found that the normalization of targeting humans permeates the field. This normalization is especially striking given patterns of obfuscation. We reveal obfuscating language that allows documents to avoid direct mention of targeting humans, for example, by normalizing the referring to of humans as ‘objects’ to be studied without special consideration. Our results indicate the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance."
The Register: US patent office wants an AI to scan for prior art, but doesn’t want to pay for it. “The US Patent and Trademark Office is exploring a plan for using AI at the agency to speed up the process of granting patents – but its initial request for information says that vendors should expect to be paid in exposure rather than cold, hard cash.” Don’t pay in exposure. People die of […]
Harvard Law School: University of Copenhagen Assumes Stewardship of the Patent Pledge Database. “This summer, the Center for Advanced Studies in Bioscience Innovation Law (CeBIL) at University of Copenhagen assumed stewardship and maintenance of the Patent Pledge Database created by Professor Jorge Contreras. … Patent pledges are voluntary public commitments that patent holders make to […]
'As stated in the position paper, the signatories are calling for patents on plants obtained from conventional breeding (random mutagenesis) to be prohibited, as well as on plants obtained from new genetic engineering (NGTs) if their characteristics also occur in nature. In addition, they propose a general exclusion from patent law for breeding (breeders’ exemption), which would also apply if further patents are granted.
https://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/en/position_paper
#patents #bigag
It's crazy how overreaching Intellectual Property got. I get wanting to be able to make money from your creations in the first 5-10 years, but there's really no good reason for why #copyright should last longer than 100. Imo, anything above 20 years is way too long. And I feel the same way about #patents.
#intellectualproperty #opensource #foss
Plot twist: The most expensive $450 in pharmaceutical history 💸
Novo Nordisk lost Canadian patent protection for Ozempic/Wegovy by failing to pay a maintenance fee. Now Canada's billion-dollar semaglutide market opens to generics in 2026 while their US patents run until 2032.
Sometimes the smallest oversights have the biggest consequences.
@ytc1 @DenOfEarth @aka_pugs I know.
And espechally in #ScientificComputing a lot of researchers loved working with #SunMicrosystems and when #Oracle took over that relationship got sour'd instantly due to #Oracle #CEO #LarryEllison...
-> https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114682503920794745
One of the big successes of #Sun was that they basically declared a unilateral "ceasefire" in terms of #IP & #Patents re: #OpenSource. Whereas Oracle didn't seem willing to honour that.
Obviously #Linux with it's #GPLv2only-Kernel and most of it's Userland could not get 'closed-sourced' like #OpenSolaris which instantly got stomped out by Oracle as they wanted to sqeeze #Solaris for profits and milk their clients in typical Oracle fashion...
Now granted, I do know someone who for most of their life made their money dealing with the intricacies of setting up #postfix, #sendmail and #courier #MailServers on Solaris and if I ask said person about that they give me a kilometer stare, so OFC like a #SysV - #Unix systems Solaris and #SunOS really are one of the reasons #WindowsNT won the "#WorkstationWar" and why - if anyone - #Apple won the last "#UnixWar"...
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"Two dangerous bills have been reintroduced in Congress that would reverse over a decade of progress in fighting patent trolls and making the patent system more balanced. The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) and the PREVAIL Act would each cause significant harm on their own. Together, they form a one-two punch—making it easier to obtain vague and overly broad patents, while making it harder for the public to challenge them.
These bills don’t just share bad ideas—they share sponsors, a coordinated rollout, and backing from many of the same lobbying groups. Congress should reject both."
I wrote a new thing today on Recollect.
"When You Read Patents, You Should Check Names & Topics"
#seo #ai #aimode #aioverviews #searchengineoptimization #google #patents
The PERA and PREVAIL Acts Would Make Bad Patents Easier to Get—and Harder to Fight
#Creativity&Innovation #PatentTrolls #Patents
"Search With Stateful Chat" patent (Cf. https://patents.google.com/patent/US20240289407A1/en ) - appears to describe the Gemini app for smartphones.
"Method for Text Ranking with Pairwise Ranking Prompting" (Cf. https://patents.google.com/patent/US20250124067A1/en ) - documents an experimental process described in this research paper titled "Large Language Models are Effective Text Rankers with Pairwise Ranking Prompting" (Cf. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.17563 ). There is no indication this was introduced into a live agentic system like Gemini.
"User Embedding Models for Personalization of Sequence Processing Models" (Cf. https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2025102041A1/en ) - documents an experimental process for improving recommender (sub-)systems (like movie searches) that incorporate large language models. The process is described in this research paper titled "User Embedding Model for Personalized Language Prompting" (Cf. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.04858 ).
"Systems and methods for prompt-based query generation for diverse retrieval" (Cf. https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2024064249A1/en ) - updates a 2022 patent for a process named PROMPTAGATOR that generates queries more efficiently based on a small number of examples, as described in this research paper titled "Promptagator - Few-shot Dense Retrieval from 8 Examples" (Cf. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.11755 ). This could be used to generate query fan-outs (but query fan-out has been used in multiple systems at least since the 1990s, so there are many implementations).
"Instruction Fine-Tuning Machine-Learned Models Using Intermediate Reasoning Steps" (Cf. https://patents.google.com/patent/US20240256965A1/en ) - documents an older method for fine-tuning instructions submitted to LLMs, as described in this 2022 research paper titled "Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models" (Cf. https://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume25/23-0870/23-0870.pdf ). The work has been superseded by this paper titled "Mixture-of-Experts Meets Instruction Tuning: A Winning Combination for Large Language Models" (Cf. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.14705 ).
This is the AI Overviews patent, titled "Generative summaries for search results" (Cf. https://patents.google.com/patent/US11769017B1/en )
#google #aioverviews #aimode #machinelearning #search #searchengines #generativesearch #seo #searchengineoptimization #webmarketing #digitalmarketing #ai #patents
Can we please get rid of that lie made by capitalists that without the drive to make money, without unreasonable IP protections and patent laws that nobody would create anything, innovate anything?
I have yet to see some C-level asshole to create anything. People in creative fields in academics, specialists that wanna work in specific fields, that have an interest create things. And all without the outlook of making billions.
Seems like everyone wants to be the first to read some fantastic patent and discover the secret to Google’s algorithms. If only it worked that way. If only it were that easy. If only some people weren’t consumed by hubris, announcing great discoveries every few months.
Technology companies love their patents. Many of them award bonuses, grants, and special recognition to employees who […]
How To Read Patents For SEO
Seems like everyone wants to be the first to read some fantastic patent and discover the secret to Google's algorithms. If only it worked that way. If only it were that easy. If only some people weren't consumed by hubris, announcing great discoveries every few months. Technology companies love their patents. Many of them award bonuses, grants, and special recognition to employees who contribute to patents.
#seo #searchengineoptimization #searchengines #patents #webmarketing #digitalmarketing #ai #machinelearning
