Date: July 25, 2024

Time: 1:30 p.m. ET

Location: National Inventors Hall of Fame Museum, USPTO Headquarters, Alexandria, Virginia

Details: Panitch Schwarze attorney Ronald J. Ventola II will speak at a United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) listening session on the impact of the proliferation of AI on prior art and the person having ordinary skill in the art (PHOSITA). Ventola will be joined by Thomas Marlow, CTO and Intellectual Property Executive at Black Hills AI, Laura Sheridan, Head of Patent Policy at Google, and Dennis Crouch, Judge C.A. Leedy Professor of Law at the University of Missouri.

The speakers will share their views on how artificial intelligence does or should affect the scope of disclosures considered to be prior art, as well as the effect of artificial intelligence on evaluating obviousness in terms of the person having ordinary skill in the art.  

Ventola is an experienced intellectual property attorney licensed in Pennsylvania and registered to practice before the USPTO. He has a broad range of experience, including counseling clients, obtaining protection, and litigating disputes under the laws governing patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. He is well-versed in a variety of technologies, having prosecuted and advised on patents for industrial equipment, medical devices, manufacturing methods, tools, and support structures, among others.

The USPTO is the federal agency for granting U.S. patents and registering trademarks. It furthers effective IP protection for U.S. innovators and entrepreneurs worldwide by working with other agencies to secure strong IP provisions in free trade and other international agreements. It also provides training, education, and capacity-building programs designed to foster respect for IP and encourage the development of strong IP enforcement regimes by U.S. trading partners.

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