AI agents are now active participants in drug discovery, chip design, materials research and software architecture. They generate patentable output at speeds and volumes the examination infrastructure was not built to handle. The question of who owns what they produce, and whether those inventions can...
Agentic AI is reshaping how patents are searched, written and understood, marking what IPWatchdog calls a “new paradigm” for innovation. The emerging technology is moving patent work from single-query search toward multi-step, goal-driven investigation, raising new questions about how invention is defined and who deserves...
The European Commission (EC) will stop pursuing three draft rules that would have regulated technology patents, artificial intelligence (AI) liability and consumer privacy on messaging apps. The three draft rules faced opposition from the industries they would have affected, and the EC said it did...
Google has filed a patent for a personalized artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot that can answer — and respond to — phone calls on your behalf. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published the patent filing on Tuesday (Feb. 11) for a chatbot that can automatically...
June 15, 2026
AI agents are now active participants in drug discovery, chip design, materials research and software architecture. They generate patentable output at speeds and volumes the examination infrastructure was not built to handle. The question of who owns what they produce, and whether those inventions can be protected at all, is one no jurisdiction has fully […]
September 04, 2019
Today in the payments news roundup, Mastercard announced it has joined the Marco Polo Network. Also, Apple has gained three separate patents related to the Apple Watch. And Amazon is testing out a new...
September 27, 2026
A federal jury has awarded headphone maker Taction a record $5.7 billion in its patent lawsuit against Apple. As Reuters reported Friday (Sept. 25), jurors found that Apple’s Taptic Engine, used in iPhones and Apple Watches to create haptic feedback, infringed on two Taction patents. Apple says it will appeal the verdict, the largest such […]
February 12, 2025
The European Commission (EC) will stop pursuing three draft rules that would have regulated technology patents, artificial intelligence (AI) liability and consumer privacy on messaging apps. The three draft rules...
November 13, 2024
B2B payments platform ConnexPay has received a U.S. patent for its invention that manages incoming customer payments in real time and generates corresponding outgoing supplier payments on demand. The company’s...
June 28, 2023
B2B firm Boost Payment Solutions has received patents for two pieces of payment technology. The New York company announced Wednesday (June 28) patents for its Boost Intercept and Dynamic Boost...