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UK Intellectual Property Office finds that patent law does not cater for inventions created by AI machines and calls for debate

31/01/2020

The UK Intellectual Property Office has found that DABUS is not a person and so cannot be considered an inventor of a patent. DABUS is an artificial intelligence (AI) machine. The UKIPO accepted the indication of DABUS as inventor at face value and did not argue...

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Dr. Rachel Free
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