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AI inventors aren’t getting their day in court.
The Supreme Court has declined a petition from computer scientist Stephen Thaler to consider whether artificial intelligence systems can be awarded patents. That leaves Thaler with an appeals court and federal court’s earlier answer of “no.”
The US Patent and Trademark Office and a federal judge in Virginia rejected his patent applications for the inventions on the grounds that [Thaler’s AI system] DABUS is not a person. The patent-focused US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld those decisions last year and said US patent law unambiguously requires inventors to be human beings.
Sorry, DABUS.
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