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Notice2025-21457

Revised Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions

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Published
November 28, 2025

Issuing agencies

Commerce DepartmentPatent and Trademark Office

Abstract

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) had issued inventorship guidance for AI-assisted inventions on February 13, 2024.\1\ The USPTO hereby rescinds the previously published Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions and replaces it with the guidance below. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Indexed from Federal Register on November 28, 2025.

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