The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) plays an important role in incentivizing and protecting innovation, including innovation enabled by artificial intelligence (AI), to ensure continued U.S. leadership in AI and other emerging technologies (ET).
On April 30, 2024, the USPTO published a Federal Register Notice requesting comments regarding the Impact of the Proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Prior Art, the Knowledge of a Person Having Ordinary Skill in the Art (PHOSITA), and Determinations of Patentability Made in View of the Foregoing. The purpose of the listening session is to obtain public input from stakeholders on the impact of the proliferation of AI on prior art and PHOSITA, as set forth in the questions presented in the Federal Register Notice of April 30, 2024.
The listening session will be held on July 25 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. ET virtually and in person at the National Inventors Hall of Fame Museum, USPTO headquarters, 600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, Virginia.
Agenda
(All times are ET)
Questions or comments related to the agenda and event series can be submitted in advance to aipartnership@uspto.gov.
Impact of the proliferation of AI on prior art and person having ordinary skill in the art (PHOSITA) listening session
National Inventors Hall of Fame Museum, USPTO Headquarters, Alexandria, Virginia
July 25, 2024
Impact of AI on prior art and PHOSITA listening session video Impact of AI on prior art and PHOSITA listening session slides
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 10-10:10 a.m. | Welcome | Christyann Pulliam, Management Quality Assurance Specialist, TC2100, USPTO |
| 10:10-10:20 a.m. | Opening Remarks | Vaishali Udupa, Commissioner for Patents; USPTO |
| 10:20-10:35 a.m. | Overview of the RFC on Impact of AI on prior art and PHOSITA | Steve Fulk, Senior Legal Advisor, Office of Patent Legal Administration, USPTO |
| 10:35-11:25 a.m. | Listening Session 1 | Jamie Lynne Simpson. Chief Policy Officer and Counsel, C4IP Council for Innovation Promotion Joshua Davenport, Principal Shareholder, Banner Witcoff Liza Vetinsky, Professor of Law, University of Maryland Dr. David Sanker, SankerIP |
Break | ||
| 11:35 a.m.- 12:20 p.m. | Listening Session 2 | Michelle Aspen, Senior Patent Counsel, Unified Patents Susan Krumplitsch, Partner, DLA Piper LLP Todd Hopfinger, Director, Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox John Villasenor, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Law, UCLA |
Lunch Break | ||
| 1:20-1:30 p.m. | AI Patents Policy Initiatives | Matthew Sked, Senior Legal Advisor, Office of Patent Legal Administration, USPTO |
| 1:30-2:30 p.m. | Listening Session 3 | Thomas Marlow, Black Hills AI Laura Sheridan, Head of Patent Policy, Google Dennis Crouch, Judge C.A. Leedy Professor of Law, University of Missouri and Patently-O Ronald Ventola, Counsel, Panitch Schwarze, Belisario & Nadel Steven Henderson, CEO, BioReplicate |
Break | ||
| 2:40-3:40 p.m. | Listening Session 4 | Adi Sidapara, Co-founder, CEO, Gardenintel William Pagan, Coats & Bennett, PLLC Vini Jaiswal, Chair of Technical Advisory Board, Linux Foundation AI and Data Dan Choi, Associate General Counsel and Chief Patent Counsel, Microsoft Salar Basiri Jonathan Osha, Chair AI Task Force, American Intellectual Property Law Association |
| 3:40-3:50 p.m. | Closing remarks | Charles Kim, Deputy Commissioner for Patents, USPTO |
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