‘Court of Appeal says AI software cannot be listed as patent inventor’

“The Court of Appeal of England and Wales this week dismissed a man’s plea to have his AI system recognized as the inventor of two patents. Stephen Thaler, founder of US-based Imagination Engines, is hellbent on giving intelligent machines the credit he reckons they deserve. He swears that a fancy food container and an emergency flashing light were the brainchild of his neural network model DABUS …” (more)

[Katyanna Quach, The Register, 22 September]

The judgment is reported as Thaler v Comptroller General of Patents Trade Marks And Designs [2021] EWCA Civ 1374 (21 September 2021).

First posted 2021-09-22 11:00:30

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