{"id":179130,"date":"2023-12-25T15:14:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T21:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/no-ai-cannot-be-named-as-an-inventor-uk-supreme-court-says"},"modified":"2023-12-25T15:14:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T21:14:55","slug":"no-ai-cannot-be-named-as-an-inventor-uk-supreme-court-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/no-ai-cannot-be-named-as-an-inventor-uk-supreme-court-says","title":{"rendered":"No, AI cannot be named as an inventor, UK Supreme Court says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/no-ai-cannot-be-named-as-an-inventor-uk-supreme-court-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.uk\/cases\/uksc-2021-0201.html\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\" nofollow\"> UK\u2019s supreme court<\/a> has ruled that AI cannot be named as an inventor and secure patent rights. It follows earlier decisions from lower courts that reached the same conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, US computer scientist Stephen Thaler lost his attempt to register patents for inventions he says were created by his AI system, DABUS.<\/p>\n<p>Thaler said DABUS autonomously created a light beacon and a container for food and drink, and entitled to rights over the inventions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s supreme court has ruled that AI cannot be named as an inventor and secure patent rights. It follows earlier decisions from lower courts that reached the same conclusions. On Wednesday, US computer scientist Stephen Thaler lost his attempt to register patents for inventions he says were created by his AI system, DABUS. Thaler [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179130","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}