Credit: cono0430/Shutterstock It's Official: 'AI Inventors' Have Arrived. But Most Patent Offices Won't Recognize Them
South Africa and Australia have signaled they will stray from the U.S. and other top patent filing countries' definition of an inventor. But such divergence could endanger patent standardizations and treaty agreements.
August 06, 2021 at 10:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Legal Tech News
On July 28, South Africa's Companies and Intellectual Property Commission granted a patent that listed artificial intelligence machine DABUS as an inventor, a first for any patent office. DABUS also scored a win in late July when an Australian federal court rejected Australia's deputy commissioner of patents' argument that an inventor can only be a human and remitted the matter back to the patent office.
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