Paul Fucito, press secretary for the USPTO, clarified to WIRED that employees can use “state of the art generative AI models” at work—but only inside the agencys internal testing environment. “Innovators from across the USPTO are now using the AI Lab to better understand generative AI's capabilities and limitations and to prototype AI powered solutions to critical business needs,” Fucito wrote in an email. Outside of the testing environment, USPTO staff are barred from relying on AI...
