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AIPPI Resolution Q272: Inventorship of inventions made using AI
AIPPI World Congress (online) · 2020-10-14 · Proposal · non-binding
Can AI be an inventor?
Human named, AI help allowed
An invention shouldn't lose patent protection just because AI contributed
What it says
Building on AIPPI's definition of an inventor as a person who made an intellectual contribution to the inventive concept, the resolution holds that an invention should not be excluded from patent protection merely because an AI system contributed to it.
AI-assisted inventions remain patentable; the question is which human gets named.
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