Resources
Essential frameworks, guides, and tools for navigating innovation,
creativity, and ownership in the AI era.
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Who Owns It, Who Invented It
Ownership and inventorship are different questions with different rules, and confusing them has destroyed patents. Four decisions mark the boundaries, each read from the opinion itself.
Read the ClusterWhat recent patent decisions add up to
Thirty-two decisions, read from the opinions. The recurring theme is that patent law rewards specificity about mechanism and punishes description of results.
Read the SynthesisPatent Term and Double Patenting
Three decisions that must be read together. One creates the exposure, the second bounds it, and a precedential agency panel reads the second narrowly. Acting on any one alone costs term.
Read BothIf You Are Sued, or You Sue
Ten decisions on what you forfeit by challenging a patent, what separates willful infringement from enhanced damages, and the marking failure that erases pre-suit damages.
Read the ClusterWhen Must I File?
The deadline arrives inside an ordinary commercial decision, before most companies think patents are relevant.
Read the ClusterHow Broadly Can I Claim?
Two Supreme Court and Federal Circuit decisions on functional claiming. A specification can satisfy one requirement and fail the other.
Read the ClusterAI Patent Legal Precedents
A comprehensive guide to how courts and patent offices treat AI-assisted inventions, with authoritative links to USPTO guidance and case law. Understand the legal landscape with plain English explanations of key rulings.
Read the PrecedentsLKQ v. GM
Design patents became easier to challenge when the near-identical-reference requirement went away. That cuts in both directions, including yours.
Read the CaseAI Prompts in Federal Discovery (2026)
Magistrate Judge Farrish ordered AI prompts in CLF v. Shell, then was stayed pending Rule 72(a) review. The broader emerging framework distinguishes attorney litigation prompts (often work product), expert prompts (Rule 26(b) methodology), party-side prompts (fact-specific), and consumer-AI use under protective orders.
Read the FrameworkAGI SureTrack v. Farmers Edge
Federal Circuit, June 2, 2026, precedential. Five farm-equipment data patents fall §101 at Alice step two. Sensor-plus-GPS pattern treated as abstract on generic hardware. Section 285 fee-shifting vacated and remanded.
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