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In his recent work published in the Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice , Dr. Mo Abolkheir argues that the prevailing interpretation of ‘inventive steps’ places emphasis on the inventor’s imaginative capacity rather than the invention itself. It confuses ‘invention’ with ‘person.’
AI and the Global IP System We need a worldwide intellectual property (IP) structure that encourages innovation and invention if we are to benefit from generative AI. Specifically, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have opened up new avenues for invention that only minimally entail human intervention.
According to the USPTO guidance for AI-assisted inventions , AI has the potential to solve some of society's most difficult challenges. How then are AI-generated inventions to be protected? The natural person can then be named an inventor on the patent application.
South Africa’s patent office has granted the first patent for an invention conceived by an artificial intelligence (AI) inventor, DABUS. The notice of issuance was published in the July 2021 Patent Journal. .
A world first – South Africa recently made headlines by granting a patent for ‘a food container based on fractal geometry’ to a non-human inventor, namely an artificial intelligence (AI) machine called DABUS. Guest Post by Meshandren Naidoo and Dr. Christian E.
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Many courts tried to determine whether a software invention is abstract by devising several tests to determine whether any invention related to computers might be patentable. In the instant case the term inventive step was stretched over the economic value of the inventive. In Bishwanath Prasad Radhey Shyam v.
Thus, it would be right to say that AIs are ever evolving and can think of new inventions without any human input per se. Subsequently, this could pave the way to drastic reformations in patent laws to accommodate AIs and AI inventions. In sum, DABUS is an AI that is capable of creating inventions with the help of machine learning.
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In a 1998 journal article by Raymond T. In his article, Professor David Vaver of IP Osgoode discusses the example of Pioneer Hi-Bred company , where patent rights are granted to inventors when they invent something that could benefit the public good.
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