2021: An AI Inventor Odyssey

As part of a global series of cases testing the boundaries of what it means to be an inventor, the Australian Patent Office (“APO“) has now had its say regarding whether an Artificial Intelligence (“AI“) can be an inventor for an Australian patent application. The Delegate of the Commissioner of Patents has concluded that an AI cannot be named as an inventor of an Australian patent application because an inventor must have a beneficial interest in property and therefore must be a natural person.

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