U.S. Patent Office Refuses to Allow Artificial Intelligence Systems as Inventors

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has ruled that artificial intelligence systems cannot be credited as an inventor in a patent, the agency announced. The group behind the applications had argued that the law’s references to an inventor as an “individual” could be applied to a machine, but the USPTO said this interpretation was too broad.

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