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AI Can’t Hold Patents Because They Require an “Inventor” to Be a “Natural Person”

By Blair Robinson (non-lawyer intern) on August 11, 2022
Posted in New + Now

A federal court ruled last week in Thaler v. Vidal (4th Cir. Aug. 5, 2022), that an artificial intelligence (AI) system cannot be listed as a named inventor on a patent application, affirming earlier rulings from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the lower court in the Eastern District of Virginia.…

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