Under the leadership of newly appointed USPTO Director John A. Squires, the Appeals Review Panel (ARP) in In re Desjardins overturned the PTAB's decision to reject claims related to training machine learning models under 35 USC 101. Whether this decision indicates a sustainable shift in the USPTO's tendency to automatically categorize training methods for artificial intelligence and software-related inventions as abstract ideas remains to be seen. Claims The Desjardins claims are directed to...

In a decision (Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson v. Anthropic PBC) from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Judge William Alsup ruled that using copyrighted books to train large language models (LLMs) like Anthropic's Claude constitutes fair use under U.S. copyright law. This decision marks one of the most detailed judicial analyses yet of how copyright law applies to AI training, with significant implications for the future of artificial...