Friday's decision likely ends a high-profile legal debate over whether the Patent Office can broaden the definition of "inventor" to accommodate creative machines.
August 05, 2022 at 05:42 PM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
Artificially intelligent machines cannot be named inventors on patents, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Friday, bringing a high-profile legal debate to an apparent end.
A Federal Circuit panel led by Judge Leonard Stark ruled—as the USPTO and U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema did before him—that the plain language of the Patent Act requires that inventors be natural persons.
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Judge Leonard Stark of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM
