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Inventorship: “Conclusory and Self-Serving Testimony is Insufficient”

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Gregory James v. J2 Cloud Services (Fed. Cir. 2020)

James filed this change-of-inventorship lawsuit against the patent owner (Advanced Messaging Tech.). James alleged that he was the sole inventor of U.S. Patent No. 6,208,638 and that his name should replace that of Jaye Muller and Jack Rieley.

The listed inventors - Rieley and Muller are famous in the music world.  Rieley was the Beach Boy's manager in the 1970s and co-wrote many songs with them as part of their "revival." Muller ("J") is a German musician.  In the 1990s, the pair started a company known as JFAX.  The company - now known as J2 - has a $2.6B market cap.  The company's original idea was to receive VM and faxes via email.

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USPTO Rejects AI-Invention for Lack of a Human Inventor

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by Dennis Crouch

Sometimes I think of myself as the creativity machine.  A cool part of this system is that I have a right to seek and obtain patent protection for my inventions (if any).  The USPTO is treating Mr. Dabus differently.  When Dabus filed for patent protection in 2019, the examiner refused to examine the patent and the PTO Commissioners Office has confirmed the refusal.

The problem is that Mr. Dabus (DABUS) is not human, but rather is a machine - a creativity machine. 

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