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 ...

A number of countries have now issued decisions on whether a patent can be granted to Dr. Stephen Thaler for an invention made by a machine named DABUS. In response to a request by the United Kingdom ...

Imogen Ireland and Jason Lohr of Hogan Lovells examine the recent decisions on “DABUS” to show why AI inventors are not just a future problem In 2018 and 2019, parallel patent applications were filed ...

A collaborative research team claims their artificially intelligent system should be recognized as the rightful inventor of two innovative designs, in a potentially disruptive development in patent ...

The UK Supreme Court today rejected a bid by computer scientist Stephen Thaler to patent several inventions churned out by an AI he claims to own. Thaler used his "creativity machine," known as DABUS, ...

At first glance, a recently granted South African patent relating to a “food container based on fractal geometry” seems fairly mundane. The innovation in question involves interlocking food containers ...

The U.K.'s highest court upheld earlier legal decisions that a patent inventor must be a "natural person," and therefore not an artificial intelligence-powered machine. It stems from a five-year ...