UK Court: AI Can’t be Named as Inventor for Patents

A top court in the UK has said that AI cannot be named as an inventor of patents in a new case. According to Bloomberg via the Insurance Journal, this is in line with what other courts have said in the EU and the United States.

The report states that the Supreme Court of Britain rejected a request by Stephen Thaler, founder of Imagination Engines Inc. He was asking the court to name his AI DABUS as the patent …

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