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28 April 2020PatentsSarah Morgan

Dabus rejected again as USPTO blocks AI ‘inventor’ patent

The  US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has  confirmed that an artificial intelligence (AI) can’t be named as an inventor on a patent application.

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