{"id":196688,"date":"2026-03-17T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/cause-for-inventor-optimism-for-ai-based-patent-applications-after-recent-uspto-memoranda\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T09:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:50:11","slug":"cause-for-inventor-optimism-for-ai-based-patent-applications-after-recent-uspto-memoranda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/cause-for-inventor-optimism-for-ai-based-patent-applications-after-recent-uspto-memoranda\/","title":{"rendered":"Cause For Inventor Optimism For AI-Based Patent Applications After Recent USPTO Memoranda?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hunton.com\/insights\/legal\/cause-for-inventor-optimism-at-the-uspto-in-a-december-2025-memorandum\">Cause For Inventor Optimism For AI-Based Patent Applications After Recent USPTO Memoranda?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hunton.com\/insights\/legal\/cause-for-inventor-optimism-at-the-uspto-in-a-december-2025-memorandum\">https:\/\/www.hunton.com\/insights\/legal\/cause-for-inventor-optimism-at-the-uspto-in-a-december-2025-memorandum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-17 09:32:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.hunton.com\">www.hunton.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Supreme Court&#8217;s Alice decision in 2014 has made securing software-related patents difficult due to murky eligibility criteria and subjective USPTO application.<\/li>\n<li>The USPTO has issued multiple guidance updates to address challenges posed by the Alice decision, with a fluctuating inventor-hostile to inventor-friendly approach.<\/li>\n<li>Initially, AI-related claims were seen as a way to overcome Alice-based \u00a7 101 rejections, especially claims involving improvements to computing or technical fields.<\/li>\n<li>In July 2024, the USPTO issued new guidance that ended the token use of AI to bypass 101-based rejections, signaling a return to a more inventor-hostile stance.<\/li>\n<li>In August and December 2025, new memos from the USPTO indicated a shift back toward an inventor-friendly approach, citing practical improvements in AI training and model performance.<\/li>\n<li>These recent updates suggest a desire at the USPTO to increase grant rates for AI-based patent applications and signal a broader interpretation of what constitutes an &#8220;improvement to the functioning of a computer.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cause For Inventor Optimism For AI-Based Patent Applications After Recent USPTO Memoranda? https:\/\/www.hunton.com\/insights\/legal\/cause-for-inventor-optimism-at-the-uspto-in-a-december-2025-memorandum Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.hunton.com\/assets\/images-t1773754511\/204247.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196690,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196688\/revisions\/196690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}