AI cannot be named as inventor, Supreme Court rules in patent dispute
by Tom Pilgrim
Dec 20, 2023
3 minutes
Artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be legally named as an inventor to secure patent rights, the Supreme Court has ruled.
In a judgment on Wednesday, the UK’s highest court concluded that “an inventor must be a person” in order to apply for patents under the current law.
The ruling comes after technologist Dr Stephen Thaler took his long-running dispute with the (IPO) to the country’s top court over its rejection of his bid to list an AI he created as the inventor for two patents.
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