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USPTO

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21 articles stable

USPTO has appeared in 21 articles since 2015-04. Coverage peaked in 2026Q1 with 3 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside AI, U.S., Trump.

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21
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Velocity
0.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
-2.000
velocity change
Sources
16
publications

Coverage Timeline

2025-11-28
Reuters 6 related

The USPTO issues new guidelines clarifying that generative AI is considered a tool that assists human inventors and cannot itself be considered an inventor

What to do about AI inventorship is a hard problem. … Bluesky: Mark Lemley / @marklemley : What to do about AI inventorship is a hard problem.  The prior PTO guidelines, now withdrawn, at least tried ...

2025-04-01
Wired 2 related

The USPTO suspends xAI's Grok trademark application, saying the name could be confused with companies Groq and Grokstream; startup Bizly claims it owns “Grok”

Elon Musk said he borrowed the name from a 1960s science fiction novel, but another AI startup applied to trademark it before xAI launched its chatbot.

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Quarterly Coverage

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Narrative

TEXXR tracks 19 Techmeme articles mentioning USPTO, dating back to April 2015. The biggest stories include Jury rules Apple must pay VirnetX $502.6M for patent infringement; USPTO invalidated... and IBM granted record 8,088 patents in 2016 by the USPTO, its 24th straight year at the top.... Coverage has shifted toward consumer themes and away from research, regulation.

Key Moments

2025Q2consumer +100pts; research -100pts; regulation -100pts
2025Q4consumer -100pts; research +33pts; regulation +67pts
2026Q1consumer +67pts; research -33pts; regulation -67pts

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