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Tokyo District Court Rules AI Cannot Be Issued Patents; Law Recognizes Only ‘Natural Persons’ as Inventors (japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)

submitted 3 months ago by BrikoX to c/legalnews

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The Tokyo District Court has dismissed a claim by an American engineer regarding an AI-generated invention, saying inventors provided for under the Patent Law are limited to natural persons.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

The only rational decision.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Would be cool if they did constitute prior art, though. That would leave them in the public domain by default, as far as I can see.