Inventions created by AI can’t be ‘patented’: UK Supreme Court

Stephen Thaler, a US-based computer scientist, lost his bid to register not one but two patents with the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO). Reuters has reported that Thaler’s patents were denied by IPO and the UK’s Supreme Court also ruled against him.

Patent refusal details
The report says that Thaler wanted to register two patents for inventions that were created by his artificial intelligence system or “creativity machine” called DABUS at the UK’s Intellectual Property Office. The patent was denied by the IPO stating that the inventor must not be a machine. And, it needs to be a natural person or a company.