Early Computer Programming Guru Passes Away By Kirk M. Hartung The inventor of the ubiquitous “cut- copy- paste” function for digital documents, Larry Tesler, passed away on Feb. 16 at the age of 74 at his home in Portola Valley, California. Tesler, who grew up in the Bronx, became interested in computers in the 1950’s, as a new emerging technology, when he saw them as […] Continue Reading →
2019 U.S. Patents Hit All Time High By Kirk M. Hartung he U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a record number of patents in 2019. The 333,350 patents granted in 2019 was a 15% increase over 2018. As usual, IBM led the way with 9,262 new patents in 2019. This is the 27th consecutive year that IBM was the #1 patentee for U.S. patents. The other top […] Continue Reading →
Disappointment for DABUS as the EPO and UKIPO Conclude Artificial Intelligence Cannot be Named an Inventor By Blog Staff The European Patent Office (EPO) and the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) recently tackled an issue that has sparked much discussion involving artificial intelligence (AI) innovation. Two patent applications were recently filed via the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Israel, China, Korea, and Taiwan, naming DABUS—an AI machine—as […] Continue Reading →