- The UK’s Supreme Court ruled that AI cannot be considered a patent inventor.
- Stephen Thaler filed an appeal to recognize his AI, DABUS, as the patent creator of a food container and a flashing light beacon.
- The court rejected the appeal claiming that an inventor should always be a “natural person”.
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has ruled that AI cannot be considered a “patent inventor.” According to a report by Reuters, five judges from the Supreme Court confirmed that an “inventor” must be a person, asserting that AI can never be an inventor with patent rights.
The case in question began in 2018, when Stephen Thaler, a computer scientist, sought legal recognition for his AI model, dubbed DABUS, as the patent creator of a food container and a flashing light beacon. However, in 2019, the intellectual property office (IPO) denied the request, claiming that only a human being can be a patent creator. IPO’s decision was also supported by the High Court and the Court of Appeal.
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