ARTICLE · 24 MARCH 2022

Announcing IPO White Paper On Best Practices For Protecting Inventions Relating To Artificial Intelligence

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I am excited to announce the publication of the Intellectual Property Owner (IPO)'s white paper on "Protecting Inventions Relating to Artificial Intelligence: Best Practices."

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I am excited to announce the publication of the Intellectual Property Owner (IPO)'s white paper on " Protecting Inventions Relating to Artificial Intelligence: Best Practices."

The paper was authored by the IPO's Software Related Inventions Committee and the Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Other Emerging Technologies Committee, of which I am a member.

I had the honor of co-authoring this paper with my fellow IPO committee colleagues Frank Chau, Sumon Dasgupta, John Kind, Alex Bridge, Thomas Burton, Michael Carey, Christina Huang, Dave Kincaid, Jennifer Lacroix, Giordana Mahn, and John Pienkos.

The paper may be found here and covers various best practices for protecting Artificial Intelligence (AI) inventions. These include:

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