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15/09/2024

As a child, I was desperate to be Agnetha from ABBA, to the extent my elder siblings clubbed together to buy me a blonde wig from the toy shop. Fast forward “mumble-something” years, and I’m delighted to be attending the conference in Stockholm for the first time this year. Obviously for the legal discourse, catching up with colleagues, and meeting new ones but I’m not going to lie that 5yo me is excited (OK, VERY) excited about the ABBA Museum too! Come and say ‘kia ora’.

Kiwis can fly.

25/07/2024

On the eve of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics and the upcoming sports extravaganza my mind wandered to sport and patents and apparently the Olympic sport with the most patents is ... golf!

https://www.ngf.org/golf-is-the-no-1-u-s-sport-for-patents/ #:~:text=When%20it%20comes%20to%20product,Patent%20and%20Trademark%20Office%27s%20website

20/07/2024

Feeling humbled - 15 years ago today I left an established firm and started on my own path with lofty aims of providing a different type of patent attorney service. There have been many special moments, lots of challenges and the inevitable mistakes. Thank you to the amazing CreateIP team - hard to believe you have put up with me for 10+ years! And a big thank you also to all of the clever, loyal and literally world changing people and companies we are lucky enough to work with everyday. Your innovations and you as people make us all on the team excited everyday to dig into each new project!

21/12/2023

Meri Kirihimete from the CreateIP whānau to you and yours.

Thank you for your support over 2023 and see you in 2024!

And don't forget to plug in your patented Santa Claus detector!

19/01/2023

23/12/2022

The offices are closed for 2022. We’re off to enjoy some time out with family and friends and, fingers crossed, some sunshine. Like Arnie, we’ll back on 9 January 2023, but in the meantime, wish you all Meri Kirihimete and a Happy New Year!

20/11/2021

https://fb.watch/9o4jOtoCT-/

Shayne has been helping the wonderful Emma of Waste-Free Celebrations patent her Re-Cracker! 🎄

29/07/2021

https://www.odt.co.nz/business/15-million-get-merino-plasters-going

It has been, and remains, our absolute pleasure and privilege to work alongside Lucas to help him realise this.

Young entrepreneur Lucas Smith’s ambition to not only heal wounds but help heal the world has taken a leap forward with a successful $1.5million...

08/10/2020

Hands up who knew Eddie Van Halen was a patent holder as well as a famous guitarist!

https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=US37633734

A supporting device for stringed musical instruments, for example, guitars, banjos, mandolins and the like, is disclosed. The supporting device is constructed and arranged for supporting the musical instrument on the player to permit total freedom of the player's hands to play the instrument in a...

21/04/2020

In a change to Covid-19 related topics I attended a webinar yesterday around AI learning and patents. Patents require the inventor (a real person) to be named. There are a few instances appearing now where the purported inventor is an AI machine, one more well published example being Dr. Thaler's DABUS creating machine:

https://lnkd.in/f5A-HN5

This poses some real problems for patents. Is the patent eligible if the inventor is not a person? Was the AI machine really the inventor or was the person behind the programming the inventor? Even patent offices have struggled with this. The USPTO saw no harm in allowing DABUS to be the inventor for a food container invention - see US10,423,875. Europe on the other hand struggled with this and have raised objections to the naming of DABUS as the inventor.

Even more curious is the description Dr. Thaler provides on how DABUS works that is hard if not impossible to understand, particularly when Dr. Thaler describes the AI learning as having 'mental health issues'.

To my mind we are not there yet and AI learning does not give rise to inventions alone - somewhere behind the AI is a programmer that sets the boundaries for AI learning and which directs the process. That said, who knows what the future holds?

The Artificial Inventor behind this project “DABUS” is a patented AI system created by Dr. Stephen Thaler. It is a “Creativity Machine,” which refers to a particular type of connectionist artificial intelligence. Such systems contain a first artificial neural network,