Imagine you are in court alone without a lawyer, making complex arguments on behalf of yourself and your co-inventor, as to why the patent office made a mistake in rejecting your patent application. Specifically that your invention is patent eligible. Everyone opposing you is a paid professional. It is not hard to see that the...Read More
The Canadian Commissioner of Patents published a decision rejecting a patent application by an artificial intelligence system and naming the AI as an inventor. Keeping with established practice, the commissioner accepted the advice of members of the Patent Appeal Board that an artificial intelligence system cannot be named as an “inventor”. The applicant, Stephen L....Read More