[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 47 (Friday, March 8, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16734-16735]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-04971]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Patent and Trademark Office

[Docket No. PTO-P-2024-0009]


USPTO AI/ET Partnership: Public Symposium on Artificial 
Intelligence and Intellectual Property

AGENCY: Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) 
Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Emerging Technologies (ET) Partnership 
provides opportunities to bring stakeholders together through a series 
of engagements to share ideas, feedback, experiences, and insights 
regarding the intersection of intellectual property (IP) and AI/ET. To 
further the AI/ET Partnership, the USPTO will hold a public symposium 
on IP and AI virtually and in person at Loyola Law School on March 27, 
2024. The symposium will facilitate the USPTO's efforts to implement 
its obligations under the President's Executive Order 14110, titled 
``Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial 
Intelligence.''

DATES: The symposium will take place on March 27, 2024, from 10 a.m. to 
3 p.m. PT. Persons seeking to attend, either virtually or in person, 
must register by March 22, 2024, at the web page provided in the 
ADDRESSES section of this notice. Seating is limited for in-person 
attendance.

ADDRESSES: Information on registration is available at www.uspto.gov/initiatives/artificial-intelligence/ai-and-emerging-technology-partnership-engagement-and-events/public-symposium-ai-and-ip. The 
public symposium will be held virtually and in-person at the Fritz B. 
Burns Lounge within the Burns Academic Center, Loyola Law School, 
Loyola Marymount University, 919 Albany St., Los Angeles, CA 90015. All 
major entrances to the building are accessible to people with 
disabilities. Registration is required for both virtual and in-person 
attendance. Because in-person attendance is limited, the USPTO advises 
anyone wishing to attend in person to register early.
    If you are an individual with a disability and would like to 
request a reasonable accommodation, please submit your request to 
[email protected] as soon as possible or at least seven business 
days prior to the symposium.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 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 USPTO's Office of the Chief Communications Officer at 
571-272-8400.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The USPTO AI/ET Partnership provides 
opportunities to bring stakeholders together through a series of 
engagements to share ideas, feedback, experiences, and insights 
regarding the intersection of IP and AI/ET. Several of the previous AI/
ET Partnership events focused on patent-related inventorship issues. 
For example, participants in the inaugural AI/ET Partnership meeting in 
June 2022 discussed patent policy issues related to AI/ET inventions, 
including subject matter eligibility, disclosure, and inventorship. 
Additionally, the AI/ET Partnership meeting held in February 2023 
focused on various IP policy issues with respect to AI-driven 
innovation, including ways to address inventions created with 
significant AI contributions, and unanticipated IP challenges from AI-
driven innovation.
    The AI/ET Partnership meeting on March 27, 2024, will build on the 
above-mentioned meetings and will feature panel discussions by experts 
in the fields of patent, trademark, and copyright law that focus on: 
(1) a comparison of copyright and patent law approaches to the type and 
level of human contribution needed to satisfy authorship and 
inventorship requirements; (2) ongoing copyright litigation involving 
generative AI; and (3) laws and policy considerations surrounding name, 
image, and likeness (NIL) issues, including the intersection of NIL and 
generative AI.
    This USPTO event is intended to complement, but not duplicate, the 
ongoing initiatives of the U.S. Copyright Office to examine copyright 
law and policy issues raised by AI technologies, which are described at 
www.copyright.gov/ai/.

Instructions and Information on the Public Symposium

    The public symposium will take place virtually and in person at the 
Fritz B. Burns Lounge within the Burns Academic Center, Loyola Law 
School, Loyola Marymount University, 919 Albany St., Los Angeles, CA 
90015, on March 27, 2024, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. PT. The agenda is 
available on the USPTO website at www.uspto.gov/initiatives/artificial-intelligence/ai-and-emerging-technology-partnership-engagement-and-events/public-symposium-ai-and-ip. You can register

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to attend the event 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. 2024-04971 Filed 3-7-24; 8:45 am]
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