Just before Christmas last year, the UK Supreme Court made quite the groundbreaking finding on the question of whether an artificial intelligence machine could be named as an inventor and consequently enjoy patent rights.
The case of Thaler v Comptroller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks [2023] UKSC 49 concerns two patent applications filed in 2018 by Dr Thaler at the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) where he claimed that the inventions were created by an AI machine called DABUS, acting autonomously and powered by AI. He argued that as the owner of DABUS, he had the right to the grant of the patents.
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