How the USPTO Solved AI Inventorship by Looking the Other Way
The Federal Circuit Clarifies: Only Humans Can Be Inventors For a while there, it looked like we had some rules.Back in 2022, the Federal Circuit decided Thaler v. Vidal and…
Who Gets Credit When AI Invents? A Look at the History—and Future—of Inventorship
For centuries, governments have tried to encourage innovation by offering inventors something valuable in return: ownership. The earliest forms of state-recognized intellectual property—like patents—were meant to reward people for coming…
Can an AI machine be an inventor?
Current Patent Office Position on AI Inventors Wow, fascinating issue, this one. For now the short answer is a simple “no”. And several patent offices across the globe have already…