24 September 2021PatentsMuireann Bolger

Has Justice Birss found a route for AI inventorship?

After a string of losses at the world’s top IP courts, it seemed as if the artificial intelligence (AI) machine, “the device for the autonomous bootstrapping of unified sentience”—better known by its acronym, DABUS, had run out of road.

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