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US patent office confirms AI can’t hold patents
AI can help the invention process, though.
The office says that a person who simply presents the problem to an AI system or “recognizes and appreciates” its output as a good invention can’t claim credit for that patent. “However, a significant contribution could be shown by the way the person constructs the prompt in view of a specific problem to elicit a particular solution from the AI system,” the USPTO says. A different federal court ruled that AI systems cannot be granted copyright, following a separate application by Thaler involving an AI-generated image.
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