2023-12-24 14:58:42
The UK Supreme Court has ruled that an artificial intelligence system cannot be registered as the inventor of a patent, denying machines the same status as humans.
The UK’s highest court has concluded that “an inventor must be a human person” to apply for patents under current law, qz.com reported.
The decision was the culmination of American technologist Stephen Thaler’s long British legal battle to have his AI, nicknamed DABUS, listed as the inventor of two patents.
+ DABUS is “not a person” +
Thaler claims that DABUS independently created a food and beverage container and a lightweight beacon and is entitled to rights to its inventions. Courts in the United States and the European Union have rejected similar requests from Thaler.
In the UK the Intellectual Property Office rejected Thaler’s application in 2019, saying it was unable to officially register DABUS as an inventor because it is not ‘a person. After lower courts sided with the patent office, Thaler appealed to the Supreme Court, where a panel of judges unanimously threw out the case.
The judges declared that DABUS is “not a person, much less a natural person, and that he has not designed any relevant invention”.
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