Legal NewsEnglish · 6 months ago

Tokyo District Court Rules AI Cannot Be Issued Patents; Law Recognizes Only ‘Natural Persons’ as Inventors

japannews.yomiuri.co.jp

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Tokyo District Court Rules AI Cannot Be Issued Patents; Law Recognizes Only ‘Natural Persons’ as Inventors

japannews.yomiuri.co.jp

Legal NewsEnglish · 6 months ago

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The Tokyo District Court has dismissed a claim by an American engineer regarding an AI-generated invention, saying inventors provided for under the Patent Law are limited to natural persons.

The Tokyo District Court has dismissed a claim by an American engineer regarding an AI-generated invention, saying inventors provided for under the Patent Law are limited to natural persons.

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Would be cool if they did constitute prior art, though. That would leave them in the public domain by default, as far as I can see.

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