The computer using artificial intelligence can’t be listed as an inventor on patents because only a human can be an inventor under U.S. law; it’s a part of the global debate over how to handle computer-created innovation.
Federal law states that an “individual” takes an oath that he or she shall be the inventor on a patent application. Individual here is a natural person, Judge added.
The Artificial Inventor Project had launched a global effort to get the computer listed as an inventor. Abbott’s team registered Imagination Engines Inc. to build the machine whose focus only was to invent.
Listing an AI as an inventor is consistent with both the language and purpose of the Patent Act. The straightforward statement is given by the federal court that invertors must be natural persons and only natural persons can be investors will help to simplify the meaning of “individual” in the Patent Act.
Artificial Intelligence uses a machine to implement steps that imitate the work of a human mind but at lightning pace, and transform everything from drug discovery to autonomous cars.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected the applications for failure to list a person as an inventor. On discussing how to address AI both as an invention and potential inventor, and is seeking comment on how patent eligibility affects investment the agency has gathered input from a range of companies and individuals.
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