[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 161 (Tuesday, August 22, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57104-57105]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-18044]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Patent and Trademark Office

[Docket No.: PTO-P-2023-0038]


USPTO AI/ET Partnership: Public Meeting on Artificial 
Intelligence Tools and Data

AGENCY: United States Patent and Trademark Office, U.S. Department of 
Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) plays an 
important role in incentivizing and protecting innovation, including 
innovation driven by artificial intelligence (AI), a transformative 
technology that holds promise for tremendous societal and economic 
benefit. The USPTO embraces an expansive view of the potential of AI 
and other emerging technologies (ET) as tools to be leveraged for 
advancing equitable access to the intellectual property (IP) system, 
improving agency operations, and enhancing employee effectiveness. 
Development and implementation of AI-enabled tools at the USPTO 
advances national priorities in IP to protect and promote inclusive, 
transparent, and trustworthy innovation. The USPTO will host a public 
meeting on AI tools and data virtually and in person at the USPTO 
headquarters on September 27, 2023, at 10:30 a.m. ET. This will be the 
fourth meeting in the USPTO's AI/ET Partnership Series. First announced 
in June 2022, the AI/ET Partnership provides an opportunity to bring 
stakeholders together through a series of engagements to share ideas, 
feedback, experiences, and insights on the intersection of IP and AI/
ET.

DATES: The public meeting will be held on September 27, 2023, from 
10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET. Persons seeking to attend, either virtually or 
in person, must register by September 24, 2023, at the website listed 
in the ADDRESSES section of this notice.

ADDRESSES: Register at https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/events/aiet-partnership-series-4-ai-data-set-and-tools. The public meeting will be 
held virtually and in person at the USPTO headquarters, Clara Barton 
Auditorium, 600 Dulany St., Alexandria, VA 22314. Registration is 
required for both virtual and in person attendance.
    The public meeting will be physically accessible to people with 
disabilities. Individuals requiring accommodation, such as sign 
language interpretation or other ancillary aids, should communicate 
their needs to an individual listed under the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 
CONTACT section of this notice at least seven (7) business days prior 
to the public meeting.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Aleksandr Kerzhner, Supervisory Patent 
Examiner, at 571-270-1760, or [email protected]; or 
Srilakshmi Kumar, Supervisory Patent Examiner, at 571-272-7769, or 
[email protected]. You can also send inquiries to 
[email protected]. Please direct all media inquiries to the 
Office of the Chief Communications Officer at 571-272-8400.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The USPTO held its inaugural AI/ET 
Partnership meeting virtually in June 2022. This meeting provided an 
overview of the National AI Initiative and the USPTO's efforts on AI/
ET, including the USPTO AI Patent Dataset. The meeting also discussed 
important patent policy issues related to AI/ET

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inventions, such as subject matter eligibility, disclosure, and 
inventorship.
    In September 2022, the USPTO held its second AI/ET Partnership 
meeting virtually and in person at the USPTO's Silicon Valley Regional 
Office. This meeting focused on AI and biotechnology and explored 
current trends highlighting the convergence of technologies in the life 
sciences and AI, as well as the IP considerations arising from this 
technological convergence.
    In February 2023, the USPTO held its third AI/ET Partnership 
meeting virtually and in person at the Arts District Mansion in Dallas, 
Texas. This meeting focused on various IP policy issues with respect to 
AI-driven innovation, including the current state of AI-driven 
innovation, ways to address inventions created with significant AI 
contributions, and unanticipated IP challenges from AI-driven 
innovation.
    The USPTO will hold its fourth AI/ET Partnership meeting virtually 
and in person at the USPTO headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, on 
September 27, 2023. Presentations and panel discussions will focus on: 
efforts at the USPTO and elsewhere to harness AI to benefit 
stakeholders and the IP system, the value of USPTO data in advancing 
the state-of-the-art in AI, and timely policy issues as to trustworthy 
and responsible AI.

Instructions and Information on the Public Meeting

    The public meeting will be held virtually and in person at the 
USPTO headquarters, Clara Barton Auditorium, 600 Dulany St., 
Alexandria, VA 22314, from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET. The agenda is 
available on the USPTO website at https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/events/aiet-partnership-series-4-ai-data-set-and-tools. Registrations 
to attend the meeting must be submitted on the same web page.

Katherine K. Vidal,
Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of 
the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
[FR Doc. 2023-18044 Filed 8-21-23; 8:45 am]
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