“The debate on whether an artificial intelligence (AI) system could be an inventor for the grant of a patent is still making the headlines. Parallel applications submitted to patent offices around the world naming a creativity machine, the Device and Method for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience (DABUS), as inventor have not met with success, leading to appeals in several courts. The matter was dismissed by the US District Court in Thaler v USPTO based on the plain statutory language of the Patent Act and precedent authority of higher courts, and, likewise, by the UK Court of Appeal in Thaler v Comptroller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks by a 2–1 majority …” (more)
Pheh Hoon Lim and Phoebe Li, ‘Artificial intelligence and inventorship: patently much ado in the computer program’, Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpac019. Published 4 April.
First posted 2022-04-12 07:45:18
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