Patents and AI inventions: Recent court rulings and broader policy questions

A women interacts with 'Alter', a machine body with a human like face and hands who learns through interplaying with the surrounding world. Alter was created by roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro and is on display at the 'AI: More Than Human' exhibition at the Barbican Centre in London. The major new exhibition explores the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence.

Can an artificial intelligence (AI) system be a named inventor on a United States patent? No, says a federal appeals court in a decision issued earlier this month. The case, Thaler v. Vidal, arose from two patent applications filed in 2019 by Stephen Thaler, naming an AI system he calls DABUS (for “Device for the … Continue reading Patents and AI inventions: Recent court rulings and broader policy questions