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According to DevClass local time on the 10th, a German court ruled last week that AI-generated inventions can be patented as long as humans are listed as inventors. The case was driven by the "Artificial Inventor Project". The project has launched a series of public interest legal test cases seeking to obtain intellectual property rights for AI-generated results without traditional human inventors or authors. The goal of the project is to stimulate discussion about the impact of AI and similar technologies and provide guidance on the "protectability" of AI results. Specifically, Germany's highest civil court, the Federal…

According to an in-depth survey report released by the United Nations, China applied for 38,210 generative AI (AIGC) patents between 2014 and 2023, more than six times that of the United States, making it the world's leading country. Specifically, China is at the forefront of global patent application activities in GenAI. Between 2014 and 2023, China was responsible for more than 38,000 patent family publications based on the inventor addresses published on the patents. Since 2017, China has published more patents in this field each year than other countries combined. From 2014 to 202…

According to a list published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Microsoft has obtained a patent on artificial intelligence, which mainly helps bosses evaluate employees' work performance based on their processing of documents. In the patent, Microsoft outlined an AI system that collects employee activity data on documents within a specified time, and provides insights into employee modifications, deletions, additions, and other operations, so as to determine whether employees are "slacking off" at work or working hard. The main goal of this technology is to determine which person has contributed the most to a document (especially a shared document in an application such as OneDrive), but it does not...