AI systems can’t be named as the inventor of patents, UK’s top court rules


The UK’s highest court concluded that ‘an inventor must be a person’ to apply for patents under the current law. — AP

LONDON: An artificial intelligence system can’t be registered as the inventor of a patent, Britain’s Supreme Court ruled on Dec 20 in a decision that denies machines the same status as humans.

The UK’s highest court concluded that “an inventor must be a person” to apply for patents under the current law.

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