Commerce Department Docket PTO-P-2025-0014 Notice

2025-21457: Revised Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions

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Summary

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) had issued inventorship guidance for AI-assisted inventions on February 13, 2024.\1\ The USPTO hereby rescinds the previously published Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions and replaces it with the guidance below. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

The agency’s own summary, as published.

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