#patents — Public Fediverse posts

There are few things that are more triggering for me than to have a client ask that I just sign and file a response that they drafted themselves. I understand that they think it will save money, but it won't.

First, I can virtually guarantee that what they wrote won't accomplish what they think it will - this is a fiendishly complicated field, loaded with arcana and esoterica. It takes a long time to learn how to do the job correctly.

Second, I simply can't. I have to draft everything I sign because my signature means something very specific under US Federal Regulations:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/37/11.18

#Patents #PatentLaw

Clerq's framing shift matters: from selling software tools to delivering work under professional direction. This positions AI as a junior associate replacement, not just a research aid. Watch whether courts or bar associations scrutinize the attorney's actual review burden. https://www.implicator.ai/clerq-ai-patentability-reports-10-minutes/ #AI #Patents #LegalTech

Clerq, a Toronto startup, launched patentability analysis software claiming 10-minute turnarounds for full reports with attorney review. The catch: no independent verification of speed or accuracy yet, and USPTO rules keep legal responsibility squarely on the reviewing lawyer. https://www.implicator.ai/clerq-ai-patentability-reports-10-minutes/ #AI #Patents #LegalTech

History remembers the inventor with the patent, the money and the institution behind them—not always the person who got there first.

From Edison and RCA to Colossus, Margaret Knight and the Invention Secrecy Act, this is how genius gets captured, commercialised and rewritten.

The Great Invention Heist:
https://thomaster.substack.com/p/the-great-invention-heist

#History #Inventions #Technology #Patents #CorporatePower #HiddenHistory #ThomAster

MIT finally unzips a 40-year-old patent, proving that even geniuses need four decades to figure out how to get dressed 🤔👖. Meanwhile, #tech 'innovators' worldwide are left scratching their heads, wondering how they missed the groundbreaking idea of a #Y-shaped #zipper all these years. MIT: where old #patents get to feel young again! 🎉🔍
https://news.mit.edu/2026/three-sided-y-zipper-design-0504 #MIT #innovation #history #fashion #breakthrough #HackerNews #ngated

I posted this about a year ago. Might be a good time to repost it.

"Search With Stateful Chat" patent (Cf. https://patents.google.com/patent/US20240289407A1/en ) - appears to describe the Gemini app for smartphones.

"Method for Text Ranking with Pairwise Ranking Prompting" (Cf. https://patents.google.com/patent/US20250124067A1/en ) - documents an experimental process described in this research paper titled "Large Language Models are Effective Text Rankers with Pairwise Ranking Prompting" (Cf. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.17563 ). There is no indication this was introduced into a live agentic system like Gemini.

"User Embedding Models for Personalization of Sequence Processing Models" (Cf. https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2025102041A1/en ) - documents an experimental process for improving recommender (sub-)systems (like movie searches) that incorporate large language models. The process is described in this research paper titled "User Embedding Model for Personalized Language Prompting" (Cf. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.04858 ).

"Systems and methods for prompt-based query generation for diverse retrieval" (Cf. https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2024064249A1/en ) - updates a 2022 patent for a process named PROMPTAGATOR that generates queries more efficiently based on a small number of examples, as described in this research paper titled "Promptagator - Few-shot Dense Retrieval from 8 Examples" (Cf. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.11755 ). This could be used to generate query fan-outs (but query fan-out has been used in multiple systems at least since the 1990s, so there are many implementations).

"Instruction Fine-Tuning Machine-Learned Models Using Intermediate Reasoning Steps" (Cf. https://patents.google.com/patent/US20240256965A1/en ) - documents an older method for fine-tuning instructions submitted to LLMs, as described in this 2022 research paper titled "Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models" (Cf. https://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume25/23-0870/23-0870.pdf ). The work has been superseded by this paper titled "Mixture-of-Experts Meets Instruction Tuning: A Winning Combination for Large Language Models" (Cf. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.14705 ).

This is the AI Overviews patent, titled "Generative summaries for search results" (Cf. https://patents.google.com/patent/US11769017B1/en )

#google #aioverviews #aimode #machinelearning #search #searchengines #generativesearch #seo #searchengineoptimization #webmarketing #digitalmarketing #ai #patents

https://www.seo-theory.com/how-to-read-patents-for-seo/

Knoxville News-Sentinel: Why the University of Tennessee is suing Claude AI creator Anthropic. “The University of Tennessee System’s nonprofit research arm is suing Anthropic, an artificial intelligence company it says violated two UT patents related to neural networks inspired by the human brain.”

🎉 Ultimul brevet pentru MPEG-4 Part 2 a expirat! DivX și Xvid sunt acum complet libere la nivel mondial

O eră importantă din istoria codecurilor video se încheie oficial: ultimul brevet care proteja standardul MPEG-4 Part 2 (cunoscut pentru formatele populare DivX și Xvid din anii 2000) a expirat.

💡 Ce înseamnă acest lucru?

🔓 Fără redevențe sau licențiere:
Producătorii de hardware, dezvoltatorii de aplicații comerciale, proiectele multimedia și distribuțiile Linux pot include acum suport nativ de codare/decodare MPEG-4 Part 2 fără teama de taxe sau procese legate de brevete.

🐧 Ideal pentru distribuțiile Linux:
Distribuțiile cu politici extrem de stricte privind software-ul brevetat vor putea include suport de bază pentru aceste formate fără a mai necesita repozitoare terțe.

🔍 Clarificare importantă:
• Expirarea se aplică MPEG-4 Part 2 (fisierele vechi .avi, DivX, Xvid).
• NU se aplică formatului H.264 (MPEG-4 Part 10) sau altor tehnologii moderne utilizate în fișierele .mp4 actuale, care sunt încă protejate de brevete active.

Pentru utilizatorul obișnuit (care folosește deja player-e precum VLC sau FFmpeg) nimic nu se schimbă peste noapte, însă este o victorie uriașă pentru distribuția de software liber și arhivarea digitală! 🎬

#MPEG4 #DivX #Xvid #OpenSource #SoftwareFreedom #Patents #Linux #Multimedia #TechNews #VideoCodecs

The last patents for the Moving Picture Experts Group MPEG-4, Part 2, Visual (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_Part_2) have expired today. This is exciting news for software developers and open source projects, even though it won't immediately change the way we watch videos day-to-day. Although the MPEG develops the technical standards, the patents are managed by companies such as Sony and Panasonic.

"Have the patents for MPEG-4 Visual expired yet?"

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Have_the_patents_for_MPEG-4_Visual_expired_yet%3F

#mpeg4 #patents #foss

KnowledgeSpeak: SPIE acquires The Lens to expand access to patent data . “SPIE has announced the acquisition of The Lens, an open‑knowledge platform that provides global access to scholarly works and patent information. The acquisition is intended to broaden SPIE’s scholarly portfolio and enhance the accessibility of patent application data by showing real‑time utilization of research.”

@mewsleah @FrazzledBrynn @neil
The philosophical question to which you allude can also be answered by examining the diagrams on the original patent for perforated lavatory paper. If you're a pedant :P

#looRoll #patents #philosophy

Greek-Swedish food scientist wins for oat-based drink technology

Angeliki Triantafyllou’s recognised invention has a direct market link to plant-based dairy alternatives and European food-tech manufacturing.

#EU #Sweden #Greece #Patents #FoodTech #Bioprocessing

https://www.epo.org/en/news-events/press-centre/press-release/2026/1362817

European Inventor Award 2026 highlights commercially relevant inventions

EPO’s 2026 winners covered healthcare, energy transition, sustainable food and circular economy technologies with clear commercial relevance.

#EU #EUwide #Patents #Innovation #FoodTech #Energy

https://www.epo.org/en/news-events/press-centre/press-release/2026/1362815

“Meta has filed a patent for a system that records your voice and surroundings all day, then uses an AI to analyse your mood. The patent’s stated, theoretical goal is for Meta, a company that makes billions of dollars targeting ads at its users based on their data, is to sell users a wearable that tailors workouts for them based on whether they’re happy or sad.

Patentlyze first noticed the patent which was published on July 2 after Meta filed it back in December of 2025. The filing described an “apparatus” that surveilled a user and their surroundings constantly to craft a better workout. “The audible communications may be associated with contextual factors such as time of day, location, user activity, or digital interaction,” the patent said. “The audible communications may be transcribed, and an emotional-state machine learning model may interpret verbal and nonverbal cues to determine emotional indicators.””

https://www.404media.co/meta-patents-ai-device-that-tracks-your-emotions-watches-you-take-your-meds

#AI #Meta #Surveillance #Patents #IP

#Meta #Patents #AI Device That #Tracks Your #Emotions , Watches You Take Your #Meds

Meta has filed a #patent for a system that records your voice and surroundings all day, then uses an AI to analyse your #mood. The patent’s stated, theoretical goal is for Meta, a company that makes billions of dollars targeting #ads at its users based on their data, is to sell users a #wearable that tailors workouts for them based on whether they’re happy or sad.
#surveillance #facebook #privacy

https://www.404media.co/meta-patents-ai-device-that-tracks-your-emotions-watches-you-take-your-meds/

WIPO PCT publication week 28/2026 goes live

WIPO’s Patentscope published PCT publication week 28/2026 on 9 July, opening the latest batch of international patent applications for technology scouting.

#EU #EUwide #Patents #Technology #Commercialisation

https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/resultWeeklyBrowse.jsf

EU #patent filing fees cut for some international applicants

The European Patent Office published a 3 July notice reducing some international search and preliminary examination fees for nationals of certain states, a small but practical access-to-IP change for inventors using the PCT route.

#EU #EUwide #Patents #Innovation #SMEs

https://www.epo.org/en/legal/official-journal/notice-3-july-2026

European inventors recognised for commercially useful healthcare, energy, food and circular-economy technologies

The European Patent Office announced the 2026 European Inventor Award winners in Berlin, highlighting technologies with business relevance across medical care, energy transition, food production and circular economy.

#EU #EUwide #Patents #Innovation #HealthTech #CleanTech

https://www.epo.org/en/news-events/press-centre/press-release/2026/1362815

#MissKittyPolitics cuz food matters.
No. Wrong answer. Unless the companies are willing to sign over all ownership of the #Patents to the government. #Food belongs to the people, not to companies, and #GMO #Privatizes food. So no. Wrong #Technology. We do not submit to #Oligarch ownership of food.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mgm3wzvoytgj4wptic2qtewm/post/3mpulztnyie2i

The Nintendo/Palworld Patent Suit Appears To Be Heading For A Muted Conclusion

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/02/the-nintendo-palworld-patent-suit-appears-to-be-heading-for-a-muted-conclusion/

TechAptitude: Weekend Reading!

Quantum Technologies and Intellectual Property Rights

At its heart the application of property rights is all about implementing strategies to create an ideal balance between enabling sharing and the free flow in technical information, technology transfer, while at the same time encouraging healthy competition.

Check out all the details in this post: https://techaptitude.substack.com/p/quantum-technologies-intellectual #Quantum #QuantumComputing #QuantumTechnologies #IP #IntellectualProperty #Patents #CopyRight #TradeSecrets #Competition #Collaboration #Research #NationalSecurity #TechAptitude

it's worse than i expected, btw. MP4/H.254/H.265 videos are all i can get from many open-sourcey social media sites, including #Mastodon, #PeerTube, #Invidious.

(some may offer their instance-owners to change the default media format, but i have not encountered such an instance)

it sucks. when did everyone start believing that relying patented codecs was okay?

and you *can* just offer both, if you cant live without supporting old apple devices or whatever.

#h264 #video_codecs #mp4 #patents

ARCHE NOAH reminds the European Commission that the Commission’s own study on #patents, published in November 2025, warns that patents on new #GMO (NGT) plants threaten the future of independent plant breeding in Europe. “We will not give up. This is about nothing less than control over our food.”

Insta360 Countersues DJI, Asserting Five Patent Violations https://petapixel.com/2026/06/12/insta360-countersues-dji-asserting-five-patent-violations/ #djiosmopocket #osmopocket #lunaultra #violation #insta360 #lawsuit #patents #legal #News #luna #Law #dji #law

Insta360 Intends to Prove the Luna Is Original, Not Based on DJI’s Patents https://petapixel.com/2026/06/11/insta360-intends-to-prove-the-luna-is-original-not-based-on-djis-patents/ #djiosmopocket #osmopocket #lunaultra #violation #insta360 #lawsuit #patents #legal #News #luna #Law #dji #law