2 June 2020PatentsRory O'Neill

Dabus team urges EPO to reconsider AI-inventor policy

The team pushing for IP offices to recognise artificial intelligence (AI) as an inventor on patents has appealed an adverse decision of the European Patent Office (EPO).

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