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3 months ago
Artificial intelligence

US Patent Office: AI is all well and good, but only humans can patent things | TechCrunch

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has stated that only a person can receive official protections for intellectual property, including patents.
AI-assisted inventions are not categorically unpatentable but AI systems themselves cannot be named as inventors legally. [ more ]
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