UK Supreme Court rules on AI and Patent Applications
IP Tech Blog
JANUARY 3, 2024
The grounds for the court’s decision was the definition of “inventor” under the Patents Act 1977 (the Act ) which requires the inventor of a patent to be a natural person. So for the moment, the position under the UK patent system is that AI is very much a tool rather than an autonomous agent in its own right.
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