According to DevClass local time on the 10th, a German court ruled last week thatAs long as humans are listed as inventors,AI-generatedThe invention can be obtainedpatent.
The case was prompted by the Artificial Inventors Project, which has launched a series of public interest legal test cases seeking toNo traditional human inventor or authorThe goal of this project is to stimulate research on Impact of AI and similar technologiesand provide guidance on the “protectability” of AI outcomes.
Specifically, the German Federal Court of Justice ruled thatProduced by an AI system called DABUSLunch box designs can be patented. Human applicants—i.e.Scientists with DABUSis listed as the inventor, but the application clearly states that the product was conceived by an artificial intelligence.
According to previous reports by IT Home, the Tokyo District Court of Japan ruled in May this year on whether AI "invented" devices can obtain patents. The court ruled that the patent should not be granted on the grounds that the inventor must be a human being..
The UK Supreme Court also made an almost identical ruling in a similar case last December. In December last year, an American computer scientist lost his bid to patent an invention created by his artificial intelligence system. The UK Supreme Court rejected his request.Because according to UK patent law, the inventor of a patent must be a natural person.