Highlights from AccelPro IP Law - Volume IV
With Angela Dunning, Julie Burke and Pablo Segarra | Interviews by Neal Ungerleider
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Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we are featuring a look back at recent interviews with experts in the IP law field.
Angela Dunning of Cleary Gottlieb on Authorship, Animals, Humans and AI
Julie Burke, Expert Witness for US Patent Practice at IPQuality Pro on USPTO DOCX Filing Requirements
Pablo Segarra of SideHustle.Law on Trademarks, Small Business Owners and Side Hustles
Prior highlight collections from AccelPro IP Law: Volume I, Volume II and Volume III
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I. On Authorship, Animals, Humans and AI
With Angela Dunning, Partner at Cleary Gottlieb
Angela Dunning explores artificial intelligence as it relates to authorship. Dunning discusses her work in the Naruto v. Slater case, legal questions around authorship and AI, class action lawsuits related to training data for generative AI and what the future holds for legal approaches around AI.
For more on artificial intelligence, explore the AI Collection.
II. On USPTO DOCX Filing Requirements
With Julie Burke, Expert Witness on US Patent Practice and former USPTO Quality Assurance Specialist
Julie Burke, a former patent scientist and United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) quality assurance specialist and special program examiner, explains the USPTO’s updated DOCX filing requirements.
Burke outlines her paper on DOCX filing and rendering errors, DOCX filing requirements and the type of errors IP practitioners may encounter when filing DOCX patent applications in the US.
“Even though all the text is there from the beginning to the end, applicants receive a notice of missing parts with no way to move forward,” Burke says.
“This jams up prosecution for months to come, because it's taking on average 170 days for our sample of applications that have been petitioned for the Patent Office to respond. That's a very lengthy time to have your application stuck on hold in pre-exam with no way to move forward. The error itself is not one created by the applicant, but you have to file the petitions, pay the fees and wait to see if you can get it fixed.”
For more related to this topic, explore the Patents Collection.
III. On Trademarks, Small Business Owners and Side Hustles
With Pablo Segarra, Trademark Attorney and Founder of SideHustle.Law
Pablo Segarra discusses trademarks from the perspective of an attorney serving a client base of small businesses and side hustles.
Segarra covers his transition from NYPD officer to lawyer, going to law school in his thirties, misconceptions small business owners have about trademarks and how lawyers can structure their offerings for the small business market.
“Most of the clients that I work with, they're just trying to get off the ground,” Segarra says.
“I definitely recommend that attorneys that want to work with this specific clientele offer flexible pricing models, flat fee services for specific services, maybe lower your monthly retainer or give a specific amount of hours for package deals. I do that often with ideas like a startup package which includes various documents and various templates.”
For more related to this topic, explore the Trademarks Collection.
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