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Can You Patent Your AI-Based Invention?


Date:  Thursday, September 17, 2020

Start Time: 1:30 pm

End Time: 2:00 pm

Patenting inventions is one way to capitalize on the hard work and creativity that drives an innovative product, but recent cases have made things difficult for innovators whose inventions are expressed in software systems and processes. Software itself frequently cannot be patented. But this is not to say that AI-based vision and embedded vision inventions are unpatentable. This presentation will give you an update on the latest developments in software patentability and help you navigate this landscape to best protect your innovative efforts.

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Session Speakers

  • Thomas F. Lebens is a patent attorney and partner based in the San Luis Obispo office of Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP, a national leader in the field of intellectual property law. Tom has served clients in preparing and prosecuting patent and trademark applications, including appeals, post-grant review, and interferences, since 1991. He also counsels clients in IP and business strategy, licensing issues, infringement and validity analysis and opinions, and copyright matters.


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Can You Patent Your AI-Based Invention?