Remove The mirage of AI invention - nothing more than advanced trial and error
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The IPKat EPO Boards of Appeal (BA) Year in Review 2021

The IPKat

Following on from our IPKat EBA 2021 Year in Review , here is some more festive holiday reading on some of the important decisions to come out of the EPO Boards of Appeal this year. 2021 saw key decisions on claim supremacy, types of antibody claims, the data threshold for second medical use inventions and the AI inventor debate. ??

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DABUS: An AI inventor or the Emperor's New Clothes?

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The question of whether it should be possible to name artificial intelligence (AI) code as an inventor on a patent application continues to dog patent offices and courts around the world. It therefore seems that the issue of AI inventorship is not going away anytime soon. So DABUS can not only invent, but has feelings and sentience?

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Bad cases make bad law: Has DABUS "the AI inventor" actually invented anything?

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In keeping with the so-called media "silly season" of late summer, PatKat thought she would check-in on the AI inventor debate. PatKat has been sceptical about Dr Thaler and his purported inventing machine, DABUS, for some time ( IPKat ). A recent EPO Examining Division office action appears to share similar concerns.