Submitting Ideas to AI Platforms May Affect Patent Rights

In November 2025, the USPTO rescinded its prior AI-assisted inventorship guidance and reframed generative AI as “a tool, analogous to laboratory equipment, computer software, [or] research databases.” In doing so, the office arguably invited inventors to use consumer AI platforms.

In an article for Law360, Day Pitney Patent Attorneys Jacob Golan, Ph.D., Christopher Cowles, Ph.D., and George Chaclas discuss the implications of this reframing for questions of patentability and ask whether disclosure of an invention to a consumer AI platform constitutes public disclosure.

Read the full article here.