17 September 2021PatentsMiguel Bibe

DABUS: the ‘natural person’ problem

The Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience (DABUS) case dates back to August 2019, when a team of academics from the University of Surrey in the UK filed two patent applications in the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO), the European Property Office (EPO) and the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), for inventions developed by artificial intelligence (AI).

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24 August 2020 IP decisions made about Dabus—a “creativity machine”—are likely to accelerate legislative consideration of the patentability of inventions by AI. For now, those using AI in innovation should consider what kind of human involvement suffices for a patent, and consider alternative forms of protection, says Matt Hervey, head of artificial intelligence at Gowling WLG.

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