'The AI cannot be registered as an inventor when applying for a patent,' the US Patent and Trademark Office announces its official opinion
Petition decision: Inventorship limited to natural persons
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USPTO/bulletins/287fdc9
Artificial Intelligence Cannot Be Inventors, US Patent Office Rules-VICE
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/akw5g4/artificial-intelligence-cannot-be-inventors-us-patent-office-rules
The USPTO made this announcement because it applied for a 'patent invented by AI' in 2019. Steven Sailer, a physicist and AI researcher, invented the technology related to 'a food container whose shape is deformed' and the technology related to an 'emergency flashlight' by using the AI system DABUS that he developed. Sailor applied for DABUS as the inventor when applying for patents for these inventions.
In the conventional American patent law, the case where 'AI is the inventor' was not assumed, and there was only a clause that 'the individual is the only person who is qualified as an inventor.' Sailor and a group of patent law experts said, “Sailor himself does not have expertise in food containers and flashlights, the applied technology was developed by DABUS, and Sailor was the inventor. It is strange that they are registered. '
Ryan Abbott, a head of a group of legal experts on AI patents at the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom, said: `` If I taught a PhD student and that student invented, I would be the inventor. not. this as well as logic, to the claims of the developers do not have to be registered as the inventor, 'said Sailor and colleagues of AI support had been.
However, in the UK, the DABUS patent is rejected under the 'Patent Law Prohibiting Inventions of Non-Natural People.' The United States has also followed the view of the United Kingdom and announced that 'natural persons are the only persons who are eligible to be inventors in patent applications.'
Overseas news media Motherboard, which reported this case, reports that the copyright debate over 'self-portrait of monkeys' and the debate over DEBUS this time are raising questions about 'rights other than humans.'
You can read more about the controversy over the attribution of copyright on 'Selfie of the Monkey' in the article below.
The legal battle of `` self-portrait of monkey '' for which copyright was asked finally ended completely-GIGAZINE
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