Organisation: US Copyright Office

AI is posing many challenges but we are finding ways to overcome them, says US Copyright Office Director

Shira Perlmutter, one of this year’s IP Hall of Fame inductees, speaks to IAM about her career and the big issues currently facing the copyright world

05 July 2024

Contrasting AI artwork copyright cases raise fundamental questions

Saturday Opinion: Conflicting rulings in the US and China encourage critical examination of the interplay between human and AI contributions to creation

13 January 2024

Guide to critical US patent policy developments on artificial intelligence so far in 2023

AI patent inventorship issues are front and centre in a USPTO request for comments, but the US Supreme Court rejected an appeal on the question

13 June 2023

The Leahy legacy: the power of conscience in patent policy

With Senator Leahy due to step down this month, IAM takes a look back at his impact on intellectual property

14 December 2022

Highlights from the annual INTA meeting, the world’s biggest IP event

Among the key contributions in Washington DC last week were presentations from WIPO DG Darryl Tang and new USPTO Director Kathi Vidal

11 May 2022

What a unified US Intellectual Property Office could mean for policy and practice

Tillis staffer says proposal could address national IP policymaking that sometimes seems “disjointed”, but open questions include where the new agency would sit and how it would fund itself

18 March 2022

Countries that seek to lead in AI must think seriously about how to use IP to protect what it creates

Exclusive article for IAM written by Professor Ryan Abbott, one of the team behind the groundbreaking DABUS patent applications

21 August 2020