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16 August 2022FeaturesPatentsFrank DeCosta

Drawing a ‘bright line’ rule over AI inventorship

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has rejected an attempt by researcher Stephen Thaler to name an artificial intelligence (AI) machine that he created as the inventor of two patents.

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