PatentNext Summary: Software and computer-implemented inventions (CII) have experienced explosive growth in recent years. This article looks at laws of jurisdictions in Southeast Asia.
In August 2022, the Federal Circuit in Thaler v. Vida held that U.S. patent law requires a "human" inventor. In 1884, the U.S. Supreme Court in Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony.
The Legal Board of Appeal (the "Board") of the European Patent Office (EPO) recently suggested that the owner of an artificial intelligence (AI) machine could possibly be listed as an inventor of an AI-generated Invention.