{"id":12709,"date":"2021-09-24T11:11:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T15:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=12709"},"modified":"2021-09-27T13:58:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T17:58:11","slug":"ai-cannot-be-inventor-of-a-patent-appeal-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/ai-cannot-be-inventor-of-a-patent-appeal-court-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Cannot be Inventor of a Patent, Appeal Court Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Court of Appeal has ruled against Stephen Thaler in his case against the U.K. Intellectual Property Office (IPO) that AI cannot be the inventor of new patents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thaler had asked the IPO to grant Dabus, an artificial intelligence that he filed in 2018, the rights to two patents, one for a kind of food container and the other for a flashing light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the IPO initially required Thaler to name a real person as the inventor of the patents, the authority later withdrew the patent after Thaler failed to follow instructions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.K. panel&#8217;s ruling states that an inventor must be a genuine human being under UK law. Lady Justice Elizabeth Laing, one of the judges involved in the decision, &#8220;Only a person can have rights. A machine cannot. A patent is a statutory right and it can only be granted to a person.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-58668534\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in the BBC.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Court of Appeal has ruled against Stephen Thaler in his case against the U.K. Intellectual Property Office (IPO) that AI cannot be the inventor of new patents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12709"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12712,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12709\/revisions\/12712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}