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Inventorship issues surrounding Artificial Intelligence AI and its implications for life sciences innovations – focusing specifically on scientist Stephen Thaler’s attempt to obtain a patent for an invention created by his AI system called DABUS.
In three previous blog posts, we have discussed recent inventorship issues surrounding Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) and its implications for life sciences innovations – focusing...
In the past several days, the internet has been aflutter with reports that a U.S. court had declared infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar's hippopotamuses to be "people." Some examples:
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution opens with these words: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
Bostock v. Clayton County. [1] There, the Court held that by barring employer discrimination against any individual “because of such individual’s . . . sex,” Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 also bars employment discrimination because an individual is gay or transgender. The paper then speculates about how much Bostock will affect how likely lower court judges will read other “sex” discrimination prohibitions in the U.S. Code in the same way, in part based on a canvass of the text of about 150 of those prohibitions. The paper also discusses the religion-based defenses t...