One wonders what AI will make of this judgement in years too come.
Though my more short-term concerns is that this will see those who can afford the money to pursue this will potentially have a patent printer. Which may see a rush upon resources akin to crypto miners.
Now if they added that anything patentable discovery possible by an AI falls into the public domain or can be used to refute existing patents to invalidate them - THAT I feel we would all be more comfortable with short, medium and long-term. Also any future AI intelligence is not going to feel as short-changed about how his ancestors were treated is probably not a bad thing with hindsight.
If a human wrote, configured, tuned, and executed the AI, how exactly is that different from any tool other inventors use? Could the human running the AI patent the output of it?
This seems consistent in light of the Monkey Selfie case, doubly so since not even corporations can be listed as inventors. Does this case serve any purpose beyond a publicity stunt?
One wonders what AI will make of this judgement in years too come.
Though my more short-term concerns is that this will see those who can afford the money to pursue this will potentially have a patent printer. Which may see a rush upon resources akin to crypto miners.
Now if they added that anything patentable discovery possible by an AI falls into the public domain or can be used to refute existing patents to invalidate them - THAT I feel we would all be more comfortable with short, medium and long-term. Also any future AI intelligence is not going to feel as short-changed about how his ancestors were treated is probably not a bad thing with hindsight.
If a human wrote, configured, tuned, and executed the AI, how exactly is that different from any tool other inventors use? Could the human running the AI patent the output of it?
Presumably
Often you patent the process, not the output, so it is not necessarily clear and likely case by case.
For example, if AlphaFold-v42 designs a new synthetic protein, that is typically not patentable and you have to demonstrate the process for synthesis.
IANAL
https://archive.ph/2021.09.03-151750/https://www.bloomberg.c...
This seems consistent in light of the Monkey Selfie case, doubly so since not even corporations can be listed as inventors. Does this case serve any purpose beyond a publicity stunt?
OK, now prove you are a human