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Australian Judge Rules Inventions Developed by Artificial Intelligence Can Qualify for Patent Protection

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Commissioner of Patents , case number VID 108 of 2021, in the Federal Court of Australia, an Australian Federal Judge became the first known jurist to rule that inventions developed by artificial intelligence can qualify for patent protection.

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AI and Intellectual Property: Ethics and Morality in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

IP and Legal Filings

AI has created new legal issues as its capabilities continue to advance, especially when it comes to identifying who owns what rights and ownership of works or innovations. Patent law has historically acknowledged that people are the ones who create new technology. This led to a historic court dispute in both the US and the UK.

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Australian Judge Rules Inventions Developed by Artificial Intelligence Can Qualify for Patent Protection

LexBlog IP

Commissioner of Patents , case number VID 108 of 2021, in the Federal Court of Australia, an Australian Federal Judge became the first known jurist to rule that inventions developed by artificial intelligence can qualify for patent protection.

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The Legal Conundrum of AI as a Patent Holder: Affecting the Policy Decisions

IP and Legal Filings

The Issue The Indian Patent Office , has for the first time rejected to recognize the claim of AI to be an inventor relying upon Section 2 and 6 of the Indian Patents Act, 1970 (Hereinafter, the Act). [1] 1] Legal personality refers to the ability of an entity to hold legal rights and obligations. 7] Way ahead?

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Rise of the machines: Federal Court of Australia holds that artificial intelligence can be a patent ‘inventor’

LexBlog IP

But that is just what his Honour Justice Beach has done in a recent judgment that a patent applicant can name as the inventor, not a human person, but an artificial intelligence ( AI ) system. [1]. 3] The application was filed in 2019 by Dr Thaler as the patentee, but named DABUS itself as the inventor.