ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

The USPTO rejected an attempt by a team from the University of Surrey to name an AI system as the inventor in two patent applications. The Office found that U.S. patent statutes and related case law, as well as USPTO rules and regulations, limit inventorship to natural persons. Consequently, patent applications may not list an AI system as the inventor.

The USPTO decision leaves open the question of what, if any, legal protections are available for inventions and other works created by an AI system without human aid. In the meantime, businesses that own AI systems capable of inventing should ensure sufficient human involvement in the inventive process to maintain compliance with patent application requirements. Such businesses should also consider whether alternative forms of protection are available for innovations created by AI.

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Kelly Joyce, PhD, a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences and founding director of the Center for Science, Technology and Society at Drexel. “Increasingly we are seeing examples of algorithms that are intensifying existing inequalities. As institutions such as education, healthcare, warfare, and work adopt these systems, we must remediate this inequity.”

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