{"id":143657,"date":"2022-08-05T20:23:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T01:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/u-s-appeals-court-says-artificial-intelligence-cant-be-patent-inventor"},"modified":"2022-08-05T20:23:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T01:23:57","slug":"u-s-appeals-court-says-artificial-intelligence-cant-be-patent-inventor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/u-s-appeals-court-says-artificial-intelligence-cant-be-patent-inventor","title":{"rendered":"U.S. appeals court says artificial intelligence can\u2019t be patent inventor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/u-s-appeals-court-says-artificial-intelligence-cant-be-patent-inventor.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Reuters) \u2014 An artificial intelligence system cannot be an inventor under United States patent law, a U.S. appeals court affirmed Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Patent Act requires an \u201cinventor\u201d to be a natural person, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit <a data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/tmsnrt.rs\/3zGMlVE\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">said<\/a>, rejecting computer scientist Stephen Thaler\u2019s bid for patents on two inventions he said his DABUS system created.<\/p>\n<p>Thaler said in an email Friday that DABUS, which stands for \u201cDevice for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience,\u201d is \u201cnatural and sentient.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) \u2014 An artificial intelligence system cannot be an inventor under United States patent law, a U.S. appeals court affirmed Friday. The Patent Act requires an \u201cinventor\u201d to be a natural person, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said, rejecting computer scientist Stephen Thaler\u2019s bid for patents on two inventions he said [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}