Artificial Intelligence (AI) Patents
The following list includes some of the more important pending lawsuits and court decisions involving intellectual property. This list is divided into the following subheadings:
- Patents
- More to come!
Patents
- Thaler v. Vidal (Fed. Cir. 2022)
- The Federal Circuit affirmed the United States Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) denial of Stephen Thaler's patent applications because they did not list any human as an inventor. The core issue was whether an artificial intelligence system could be listed as an inventor on a patent application. Thaler, who developed AI systems that generated inventions, filed two patent applications, listing an AI system called DABUS as the sole inventor. The USPTO denied the applications, asserting that a machine cannot qualify as an inventor. The Federal Circuit upheld the USPTO's decision, asserting that under the Patent Act, an "inventor" must be a natural person, hence, AI systems cannot be recognized as inventors.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Patent Attorney
Please see Dan Tysver's bio and contact information if you need any AI-related legal assistance. Dan is a Minnesota-based attorney providing AI advice on intellectual property and litigation issues to clients across the country.