European Union: European Patent Office rejection of AI as inventor in patent applications
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Legal Board of Appeal dismisses appeal on patent applications designating AI as inventor
On 21 December 2021, the European Patent Office's (EPO) Legal Board of Appeal confirmed that, under the European Patent Convention (EPC), an inventor named in a patent application must be a human individual and not a machine. The ruling was made in …
SourceEuropean Patent Office publishes conclusions on rejection of patent applications naming an AI system as inventor
On 27 December 2020, the European Patent Office (EPO) issued its conclusion explaining why it refused two European patent applications in which an AI system was named as the inventor. Previously, the EPO refused the applications EP 18 275 163 and EP…
SourceEuropean Patent Office rejects two patent applications designating AI system as inventor
On 20 December 2019, the European Patent Office (EPO) rejected two European patent applications (EP 18 275 163 and EP 18 275 174) in which a machine was named as the inventor. Specifically, the "connectionist artificial intelligence system" DABUS wa…
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