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12 April 2021PatentsMauricio Uribe

The end of the DABUS affair?

An April 6, 2021, summary judgment hearing before Judge Leonie Brinkema in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia likely brings an end to the global saga brought by Stephen Thaler to challenge the very notion of inventorship of patent applications, and perhaps the larger notion of whether a computer software entity can have property rights.

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