As AI advances, one of the important, practical challenges that courts, governments, and regulators face is whether current intellectual property legal frameworks are equipped to address a question that is already upon us: Can an AI be granted a patent?
In recent fevelopments in this area, a UK court has ruled that since Dabus (an artificial neural network) is not a person, it cannot be called an inventor.
Dr. Stephen Thaler, the creator of DABUS (the creativity machine) had filed applications to patent offices around the world. By doing this, Thaler seeks to establish that artificial intelligence systems can make inventions and that the owners of such systems can obtain patents for those inventions. Read more