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But it’s now evident that AI is capable of producing inventions on its own, and there have been multiple documented instances of patentapplications where the person applying for a patent has recognized AI as the inventor. If such products were created by a human inventor, they could be eligible for patent protection.
They include such issues as whether (and how) Dr. Thaler obtained authorization from DABUS to file the patentapplication, and whether the patent statutes include a requirement that inventors be human. Each of these three jurisdictions found sufficient reasons in these formalities to reject DABUS’ patentapplications.
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Matthews, §4 Annotated Patent Digest § 25:76 (“Surrender arises from a patentee’s canceling or amending a claim to avoid a prior art rejection and relying on the amended matter as avoiding the prior art.”). Schor, The Reissue Recapture Doctrine: Its Place Among the PatentLaws , 22 Cardozo Arts & Ent.
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with a patentlaw concentration with intellectual property certificate, from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 2013. While there, he was a member of the IP and Technology Law Society, Military Law Society, and National Black Law Students Association. Joel received his J.D.,
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