In 2022, a US appeals court in Washington, DC, ruled that an AI system called DABUS could not be listed as an inventor because US statutes define an inventor as an "individual," meaning a human being.
Sources
- MIT Technology Review (technologyreview.com)
- https://www.akingump.com/en/insights/alerts/federal-circuit-confirms-inventor-must-be-human-not-ai (akingump.com)
- https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=055e8fc5-f081-4972-b59e-e9a4057daf66 (lexology.com)
- https://www.jonesday.com/en/insights/2022/08/federal-circuit-affirms-patent-inventors-must-be-human-not-ai (jonesday.com)
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