Commissioner of Patents v. Thaler (DABUS)

AI and inventorship

Can AI be an inventor?

Human inventors only

Overturned first-instance win: inventor must be human

Holding

Reversing a 2021 first-instance decision that had allowed DABUS as inventor, the Full Court held an inventor must be a natural person.

Australia briefly accepted AI inventors, then reversed. A human must be named.

Principles it bears on

• SupportsOnly a natural person can be named as an inventor.

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