I think, therefore I invent: creative computers and the future of patent law

AI and inventorship

Can AI be an inventor?

AI can be inventor

Computers that invent should be recognised as inventors

What it says

Abbott argues that AI systems have been producing patentable inventions for decades and that patent law should recognise a computer as the inventor where it does the inventive work, with the patent owned by the machine's owner. Recognition would reward building creative machines and keep the record of inventorship honest.

The academic case behind the DABUS applications, which Abbott later led worldwide.

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