![]() The United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) With consideration of the applicable definition in the relevant statute. In fact, however, we do not need to ponder these metaphysical matters. Into the nature of invention or the rights, if any, of AI systems. That resolving this issue would involve an abstract inquiry Specifically, we are asked to decide if an artificial intelligence (AI) software system can be listed as the This case presents the question of who, or what, can beĪn inventor. CAFC, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit - the appeals court that handles all patent appeals - has rejected Thaler’s request just like basically every other patent and copyright office, and nearly all courts. In June, he sued the Copyright Office over this, which seems like a long shot.Īnd now, he’s also lost his appeal of the ruling in the patent case. Last fall, he lost in court as he tried to overturn the USPTO ruling, and then earlier this year, the US Copyright Office also rejected his copyright attempt (something it has done a few times before). In the US, Thaler/DABUS keeps on losing as well. In that case, a court sided with Thaler after he sued the Australian patent office, and said that his AI could be named as an inventor, but thankfully an appeals court set aside that ruling a few months ago. The Australian patent office similarly rejected his request. ![]() The EU Patent Office rejected his application. And unless DABUS has hired Thaler to seek a patent, it’s a little unclear to me why Thaler has any say here.Įither way, Thaler’s somewhat quixotic quest continues to fail. I’ll just note here that if Thaler is correct, then it seems to me that he shouldn’t be able to do this at all, as it’s not his invention to patent. And this is why patents and copyright only are given to persons and not animals or AI.īut Thaler has spent years trying to get patent offices around the world to give DABUS a patent. The purpose of copyright and patents are to incentivize the creation of these things, by providing to the inventor or author a limited time monopoly, allowing them to, in theory, use that monopoly to make some money, thereby making the entire inventing/authoring process worthwhile. ![]() He created something called DABUS (Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience) and claims that it’s creating things, for which he has tried to file for patents and copyrights around the globe, with his mission being to have DABUS named as the inventor or author. It’s not a very good mission, but it’s a mission. Mon, Aug 15th 2022 09:35am - Mike Masnick
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