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24 March 2021Muireann Bolger

UK govt mulls legislative changes to safeguard AI inventions

The UK government will consult on the possibility of introducing legal changes for protecting AI-generated inventions which do not meet inventorship criteria, it confirmed following a call for views on AI and IP.

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