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UK Supreme Court rules on AI and Patent Applications

IP Tech Blog

The grounds for the court’s decision was the definition of “inventor” under the Patents Act 1977 (the Act ) which requires the inventor of a patent to be a natural person. So for the moment, the position under the UK patent system is that AI is very much a tool rather than an autonomous agent in its own right.

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Humanizing Technology: Back to Basics on DABUS and AI as Inventors

IP Watchdog

With South Africa’s patent office having recently granted the first patent to an AI inventor, and an Australian court ruling in favor of AI inventorship, it’s time to review how we got here—and where we’re going. If AI-related patent applications and grants are on the uptick, what was the problem with DABUS?

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UK Supreme Court rules on AI and Patent Applications

LexBlog IP

The grounds for the court’s decision was the definition of “inventor” under the Patents Act 1977 (the Act ) which requires the inventor of a patent to be a natural person. The court unanimously found that AI cannot.

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – IP Researchers Needed for DABUS Patent Application

IPilogue

Student researchers are needed to assist in the preparation of arguments for the ground-breaking DABUS AI patent application in Canada. DABUS and its creator Dr. Stephen Thaler have garnered worldwide attention when patent applications naming DABUS as the sole inventor were filed in several national patent offices.

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Patenting with Artificial Inventors

LexBlog IP

Vidal , a Federal Court of Appeals case that determined whether AI can be listed as an inventor on a patent application. In this case, Dr. Stephen Thaler created an AI program that he listed as the only inventor on two US patent applications. prior art).

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Guest post by Profs. Chien and Grennan: Unpacking the Innovator-Inventor Gap: Evidence from Engineers

Patently-O

Chien , Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and co-director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, and Jillian Grennan , Associate Professor of Finance and Sustainability at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business. And which innovators become inventors? of inventors.

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Alleged Co-Inventor Not Bringing Home the Bacon This Time

The IP Law Blog

Well, it turns out that not all contributions count when it comes to being an inventor of a patent for a better method of precooking bacon. 9,980,498 (the “’498 Patent”). Unitherm”), argued that it had rights to the patent because its president was an inventor and should be added to the patent. Iolab Corp.

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