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Mark Lemley

@marklemley
6 posts
2025-11-28
What to do about AI inventorship is a hard problem.  The prior PTO guidelines, now withdrawn, at least tried to grapple with it.  The current approach is simply to say that people can be inventors, AI can't, and assume that ignoring AI conception somehow takes care of the problem.  It doesn't. …
2025-11-28 View on X
Reuters

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 withdr...

In practice, I suspect this means applicants will lie about who made AI-generated inventions, the PTO will let them, and those patents will be in trouble if and when they are enforced in court.  —  3/3
2025-11-28 View on X
Reuters

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 withdr...

2025-10-06
@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy has a great primer on the enshittification of Amazon  —  www.theguardian.com/technology/ 2...
2025-10-06 View on X
The Guardian

A book excerpt details the “enshittification” of Amazon, and how its “flywheel” technique now enriches the company at the expense of merchants

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products?

2025-10-02
What would you lose if you lost internet.  More than you think.  A fascinating and kind of scary story  —  www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ se...
2025-10-02 View on X
The Guardian

A book excerpt details Tonga's 2022 internet outage after a colossal underwater volcanic eruption ripped apart the cables connecting the country to the world

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ se... Sarah Pinsker / @sarahpinsker : This is a fascinating article about our connected world and what happens when the connections stop.  —  www.the...

2021-06-29
Judge throws out FTC + states antitrust case against Facebook on the grounds that there's no proof Facebook has market power and that closing off APIs isn't an antitrust violation. It's much harder to survive a motion to dismiss in antitrust than elsewhere https://storage.courtlistener.com/ ...
2021-06-29 View on X
CNBC

US district court dismisses FTC's antitrust complaint against Facebook, saying its definition of market dominance was insufficient, but will let FTC refile it

- A federal court on Monday dismissed the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust complaint against Facebook.

2019-10-02
DC Circuit affirms Trump administration's decision to kill net neutrality, but vacates the preemption provision, so states can go their own way. https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/ ...
2019-10-02 View on X
Washington Post

Appeals court upholds FCC's 2017 repeal of net neutrality, but also rules the FCC can't stop states from setting their own regulations

so NJ can protect a free & open internet under its own plan. That's a significant win, even if the battle is far from over. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Senator Jeff Merkley...