Virtual AI Symposium, Session 3
Protecting and Promoting AI Innovation: Patent Eligibility Reform as an Imperative for National Security and Innovation

Friday, October 1, 2021, 12:00 – 2:10 p.m.

David Kappos & Asa Kling, Ground-Level Pressing Issues at the Intersection of AI and IP, 22 Colum. Sci. & Tech. L.Rev. 263 (2021) https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/stlr/article/view/8665

Ben Hattenbach & Gavin Snyder, Rethinking the Mental Steps Doctrine and Other Barriers to Patentability of Artificial Intelligence, 19 Colum. Sci. & Tech. L. Rev. 313 (2018) https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/stlr/article/view/4761

Jerry I-H Hsiao, Back to the Future:  The Reviving of the Mental Steps Doctrine and the Immature Demise of Artificial Intelligence, 31 Alb. L.J. Sci. & Tech. 179 (2021) https://www.albanylawjournal.org/article/22337-back-to-the-future-the-reviving-of-the-mental-steps-doctrine-and-the-immature-demise-of-artificial-intelligence

David Jones’ 2019 senate testimony: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Jones%20Testimony1.pdf

Judge Michel’s 2019 senate testimony: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Michel%20Testimony.pdf

Former Director Andrei Iancu’s January 2020 farewell speech: https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/news-updates/remarks-director-iancu-us-chamber-commerce-event-how-innovation-and

Kevin Madigan and Adam Mossoff, “Five Years Later, the U.S. Patent System is Still Turning Gold to Lead”: https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2019/12/15/five-years-later-the-us-patent-system-is-still-turning-gold-to-lead/id=116984/