[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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