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UK Supreme Court rules AI cannot be a patent inventor
The court left open whether AI-generated inventions should be patentable at all, ruling only on the narrower question of who the Patents Act 1977 requires to be named as inventor.
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DC court rules AI-only artwork cannot be copyrighted
Judge Beryl Howell upheld the Copyright Office's refusal to register Stephen Thaler's machine-generated image, ruling human authorship is required.
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Federal Circuit rules AI cannot be a patent inventor
Ruling in Thaler v. Vidal, the court held the Patent Act's term 'individual' means a natural person, rejecting Stephen Thaler's bid to name his DABUS system as sole inventor.
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