A UK court rules that AI cannot be the inventor of a patent.
London: A computer scientist from the United States was unsuccessful in his attempt on Wednesday to secure patents for ideas developed by his artificial intelligence system in a significant legal case in Britain that examined the question of whether AI may possess patent rights.
Stephen Thaler sought to get two patents in the UK for inventions that he claims were created by his creativity machine, known as DABUS. The UK’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) rejected his effort to file the patents since the creator must be a human or a firm, not a machine.
Thaler went to the UK’s Supreme Court, which dismissed his appeal because, according to UK patent law, an inventor must be a human being.
Judge David Kitchin stated in the court’s written decision that the case did not address the larger issue of whether technological advancements produced by autonomous devices powered by AI should be eligible for patents.
According to Thaler’s legal team, the decision demonstrates that the existing state of UK patent law is not appropriate for safeguarding ideas created independently by AI machines. As a result, it is also insufficient to provide support to industries that depend on AI for the advancement of new technologies.
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