Community voting period now open for USPTO SXSW 2025 PanelPicker proposals

We need your votes to help ensure intellectual property (IP) is part of the South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Interactive conversation. From August 6-18, 2024, you can vote for the USPTO 2025 PanelPicker® proposals. 

USPTO welcomes U.S. Copyright Office report on digital replicas

The report addresses legal and policy issues surrounding AI-generated digital replicas, or the use of digital technology to realistically replicate an individual’s voice or appearance. 

USPTO issues AI subject matter eligibility guidance

This latest update builds on previous guidance by providing further clarity and consistency to how the USPTO and applicants should evaluate subject matter eligibility of claims in patent applications and patents involving inventions related to AI technology. 

USPTO announces National Strategy for Inclusive Innovation

The Strategy aims to grow the economy, create quality jobs, and address global challenges by increasing participation in STEM, inventorship, and innovation among youth and those from historically underrepresented and underresourced communities.

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Our nation’s diversity is what makes us stronger and more competitive. A more inclusive and expansive intellectual property economy will create new jobs with higher wages and promote economic prosperity for all.”
- Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO
Learn more about the Council for Inclusive Innovation and its initiatives to bring American innovation to impact
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