Stanford Technology Law Review·Published May 30·11 min
A controlled empirical study from Stanford compared GPT-4o's prior art search performance against USPTO examiners across 400 randomly sampled applications in Class 705 (Data Processing: Financial, Business Practice). LLMs identified relevan...
GPT-4oprior art searchUSPTOpatent examinationempirical study
Research Notes
Relevant to Chapter 3 of dissertation — compare with EPO examiner accuracy benchmarks.
WIPO Economic Research Working Papers·Published May 29·14 min
WIPO's 2026 Global IP Filings Report documents a 41% year-over-year increase in patent applications where applicants disclosed AI tool involvement in the inventive process, concentrated among the top-50 filers by volume (Samsung, Huawei, LG...
WIPOfiling statisticsAI inventionPCTinventorship
Research Notes
Cite in literature review. Check WIPO portal for full dataset download.
Ongoing WHO Pandemic Treaty negotiations have surfaced deep tensions between high-income country IP frameworks—which prioritize pharmaceutical data exclusivity periods of 5–10 years—and low- and middle-income country demands for technology ...
World Intellectual Property Review·Published May 29·9 min
As telecoms infrastructure transitions from 5G to nascent 6G architectures, standard-essential patent (SEP) holders—including Ericsson, Nokia, Qualcomm, and Huawei—are leveraging the transition window to renegotiate FRAND royalty structures...
FRANDSEP5G6Groyalty stacksEU regulation
Research Notes
Cross-reference with Bekkers 2024 SEP paper. Good for comparative licensing chapter.
Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice·Published May 30·7 min
The Federal Circuit upheld a district court finding of obviousness in the Amgen v. Sanofi antibody patent dispute, reinforcing limits on broad functional claiming in the biopharmaceutical space. The court applied the Wands factors to assess...
