On April 24, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge by a computer scientist, Stephen Thaler, to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) refusal to issue patents for inventions his artificial intelligence system created. Reuters writes that the Court turned away his appeal of a lower court’s ruling that patents can be issued only to human inventors and that his AI system could not be considered the legal creator of two inventions that he has said it generated. Previously, the USPTO and a federal judge in Virginia rejected his patent applications for the inventions on the… Read more »
Monthly Archives:: May 2023
Joslyn Garcia Joins Weaver IP L.L.C.
Weaver IP L.L.C. is pleased to announce that Joslyn Garcia has joined the firm as a Technical Specialist. Prior to joining Weaver IP L.L.C., Mrs. Garcia was a Manufacturing Electromechanical Engineer at Northrop Grumman and Stellant Systems, serving as a responsible engineer over the production of satellite microelectronic packages for various government programs. Before working in the space industry, Mrs. Garcia gained various technical internship experiences as a MATLAB Instructor at UCLA, Ride Mechanical Engineer at Walt Disney Imagineering, a Highly Immersive Platforms Engineer at HP Inc, a Component Test Engineer at Northrop Grumman, a Body Design Engineer at Toyota… Read more »
Fiala & Weaver P.L.L.C. Reorganized as New Firm Weaver IP L.L.C
Fiala & Weaver P.L.L.C., a successful intellectual property law firm, announces a reorganization. As of February 1, 2023, the firm has reorganized into a new law firm known as Weaver IP L.L.C. As part of this change, Thomas Fiala, one of the two founding partners who launched Fiala & Weaver P.L.L.C. in 2007, has transitioned to another private law firm. “This has been a time of tremendous change with the formation of the new firm,” said Jeff Weaver, the managing director. “I am certainly grateful to Tom for the 16 years of partnership and wish him well in his new… Read more »
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