AI Cannot be Inventor of a Patent, Appeal Court Rules

Share post:

The Court of Appeal has ruled against Stephen Thaler in his case against the U.K. Intellectual Property Office (IPO) that AI cannot be the inventor of new patents.

Thaler had asked the IPO to grant Dabus, an artificial intelligence that he filed in 2018, the rights to two patents, one for a kind of food container and the other for a flashing light.

While the IPO initially required Thaler to name a real person as the inventor of the patents, the authority later withdrew the patent after Thaler failed to follow instructions.

The U.K. panel’s ruling states that an inventor must be a genuine human being under UK law. Lady Justice Elizabeth Laing, one of the judges involved in the decision, “Only a person can have rights. A machine cannot. A patent is a statutory right and it can only be granted to a person.”

For more information, read the original story in the BBC.

Featured Tech Jobs

SUBSCRIBE NOW

Related articles

AI presents an “extinction level threat” – US Gov’t Report: Hashtag Trending for Tuesday, March 12, 2024

A new US government report warns that AI presents an “extinction level threat to the human species. Elon Musk is outsourcing his Grok AI code. Hackers have breached the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in the US and a researcher shows how to steal a Tesla by leveraging a feature of the Tesla charging stations.

Robot startup uses ChatGPT to enhance its communications and reasoning skills

Humanoid robot startup Figure has secured a significant $675 million investment from a group of high-profile investors, including...

Lawsuit requires Pegasus spyware to provide code used to spy on WhatsApp users

NSO Group, the developer behind the sophisticated Pegasus spyware, has been ordered by a US court to provide...

OpenAI claims New York Times manipulated ChatGPT “fabricate data”

OpenAI has challenged the New York Times' copyright lawsuit, asserting the newspaper manipulated ChatGPT to fabricate evidence. The...

Become a member

New, Relevant Tech Stories. Our article selection is done by industry professionals. Our writers summarize them to give you the key takeaways