Brand names, like so many of the horse names in this year’s field, are not particularly arbitrary, whimsical or highly creative. For a product, this can increase the challenge of enforcing legal protection.
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved and overdue time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. Kathi Vidal is an American intellectual property lawyer and former engineer who serves as Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Vidal began her career as an engineer for General Electric and Lockheed Martin, working in the areas of AI, software engineering and circuitry.
The USPTO's new guidance on the use of artificial intelligence states that while AI-assisted inventions are not "categorically unpatentable, the inventorship analysis should focus on human contributions,.