Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have been around since 2014, but only more recently gained popularity in the fields of digital and digitally held assets. Despite the almost decade-long history of this technological development, many individuals still wonder what actually is a Non-Fungible Token?…
Creativity Machine’s artwork is titled “A Recent Entrance to Paradise.” Its developer Steven Thaler tried to copyright the artwork on behalf of the algorithm he dubbed as ‘Creativity Machine’, reports The Verge. Now, a three-person board at the US Copyright Office has…
Our previous blog posts, Artificial Intelligence as the Inventor of Life Sciences Patents? and Update on Artificial Intelligence: Court Rules that AI Cannot Qualify As “Inventor,” discuss recent inventorship issues surrounding AI and its implications for life sciences innovations. Continuing our series, we now look at…
Over the past few years, and after decades as little more than a mathematical curiosity, useful industrial applications of AI have become commonplace. AI is now recognised as one of the primary drivers of computing development. In 2018, Canadians Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey…
This consultation is seeking evidence and views on: the extent to which patents and copyright should protect inventions and creative works made by AI measures to make it easier to use copyright protected material in AI development, supporting innovation and research Artificial intelligence (AI) is a transformative…
Artificial intelligence is the capability of a machine or software to imitate intelligent human behavior. It is expected to grow and improve in the near future, which means it could soon be a contender for human content writers. Some argue that AIs…
Stephen Thaler and Ryan Abbott plan to bring a light beacon, a beverage container, and a machine called Dabus into court, along with a simple question: Does an inventor need to be human? Depending on how they respond, a panel of judges…
Artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be the inventor of new patents, the UK Court of Appeal has ruled. Patents assign the ownership of a new invention to its creator. At its core, the argument is about whether a law written for human inventors…
Should an artificially intelligent machine be able to patent its own inventions? For a US federal judge, the larger implications of that question were irrelevant. In April 2020, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) ruled that only “natural persons” could be credited…
“If you are developing an artificial intelligence that is making more and more judgment calls, and you want to seek patent protection for any resulting inventions, ensure there’s still a human involved in interpreting the final results.” The USPTO’s recent landmark decision (16/524,350) concluding…
