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Who Gets the Patent When AI Is the Inventor?

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Artificial intelligence is transforming drug design — but it could also disrupt intellectual property law. To realize AI’s full promise, the US may have to reconsider its approach to issuing patents....more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Can Computer Systems Using Artificial Intelligence Patent their own Inventions?

Increasingly, companies are using artificial intelligence to invent new methods and products.  But can a named inventor be a non-human machine under the law? ...more

Winstead PC

Update: Federal Judge Rules That Only Natural Persons Can Be Inventors

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Recently, a federal judge in the Eastern District of Virginia issued a memorandum opinion in the ongoing dispute over whether artificial intelligence (“AI”) machines may be properly identified as inventors on U.S. patent...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

"Creativity Machine" Cannot Be Named As Inventor

In a Decision on Petition issued in April, and signed by Deputy Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy Robert W. Bahr, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office refused to vacate a Notice to File Missing Parts of...more

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