{"id":3953,"date":"2024-02-16T08:45:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T00:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=3953"},"modified":"2024-02-16T08:45:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T00:45:20","slug":"%e7%be%8e%e5%9b%bd%e4%b8%93%e5%88%a9%e5%95%86%e6%a0%87%e5%b1%80%ef%bc%9a%e4%ba%ba%e5%b7%a5%e6%99%ba%e8%83%bd%e4%b8%8d%e8%83%bd%e8%a2%ab%e5%88%97%e4%b8%ba%e5%8f%91%e6%98%8e%e4%ba%ba%ef%bc%8c%e4%bd%86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/3953.html","title":{"rendered":"USPTO: AI cannot be listed as inventor, but humans can use AI tools when inventing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) made it clear in a newly released decision-making procedure guide on Monday local time thatAI<\/a>The system cannot be named as the inventor, but humans can be used in the process of creating patented inventions AI<\/a> Tools, if AI tools are used, it is necessary to clearly<\/span>(To regulatory authorities)inform<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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Image source: Pixabay<\/p>\n

The guidelines state that invention patents should "focus on human contributions".Because the function of patents is to motivate and reward human ingenuity<\/span>While AI systems and other \u201cnon-natural persons\u201d cannot be listed as inventors in patent applications, the use of an AI system by a natural person \u201cdoes not preclude\u201d the natural person from qualifying as an inventor.To apply for a patent, there must be at least one qualified human inventor<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Therefore, if a natural person merely uses AI to create or supervise something, they cannot be a patent applicant.<\/p>\n

Not only in the United States, but also in the United Kingdom, there have been similar cases.The local Supreme Court ruled that the patent inventor must be a natural person, not an AI<\/span>. American scientist Stephen Thaler filed two patent applications in the UK in 2018, one for the shape of food packaging and the other for a flashlight. He said,These inventions were designed by his AI machine "DABUS"<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The UK Supreme Court rejected his claim.Because according to UK patent law, the inventor of a patent must be a natural person<\/span>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has made it clear on Monday in its newly published decision-making procedure guide that artificial intelligence systems cannot be named inventors, but that humans can use the AI tool in the creation of patent inventions, and that if the AI tool is used, it must be clearly (to regulators). Source Pixabay, the guide states that patents for inventions should \u201cfocus on the contribution of human beings\u201d because the function of patents is to inspire and reward human intelligence. While artificial intelligence systems and other \u201cnon-natural persons\u201d cannot be classified as inventors in patent applications, the use of the AI system by natural persons \u201cdoes not exclude\u201d the qualification of natural persons as inventors. In addition, at least one human inventor must meet the requirements for patenting. So if a natural person is just<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[411,204],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-3953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ai","tag-204"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3953"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=3953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}