A team at the University of Surrey in the UK is seeking a major shakeup in patent law after it filed patent applications in multiple jurisdictions which list an AI application as the sole inventor.
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23 December 2019 Late last week, the European Patent Office refused two patent applications that list an artificial intelligence application as the sole inventor.
29 January 2020 The European Patent Office has said it rejected two patent applications naming the machine Dabus as an inventor because European law requires an inventor to be a “natural person”.