Machines Can’t Be Inventors, But They Still Contribute To The Pace Of Innovation

On April 27 the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) ruled that an artificial intelligence system named DABUS can not be considered an inventor of the work the system produced based on a procedural requirement that a natural person must be specified for a patent application to be processed by the office. The system’s architect Stephen Thaler claims that DAUBUS is a “creative machine” and should be given credit as the inventor of the new products the system generates. The ruling follows additional instances of the same case filed with the European and United Kingdom patent offices all of whom agree that inventors can’t be machines.

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