AI cannot be the inventor of a patent, appeals court rules

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'Only a person can have rights. A machine cannot,' one of the judges wrote.

Artificial intelligence cannot be the inventor of new patents, the UK Court of Appeal has ruled.At its core, the argument is about whether a law written for human inventors can be applied to machines.

Mr Thaler filed two patent applications in 2018, one for a type of food container and one for a flashing light. But he did not list himself as the inventor. The IPO told Mr Thaler he needed to list a real person as the inventor - something he did not do, and the IPO decided that the application had been withdrawn.Machine rights

The third judge, Lord Justice Birss, took a different view. While he agreed that "machines are not persons", he concluded that the law did not demand a person be named as the inventor at all.

 

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