Scientist renews bid to name artificial intelligence as U.S. patent holder

(Reuters) – Laptop scientist Stephen Thaler on Monday asked a U.S. appeals courtroom for a new hearing in his lawsuit looking for recognition for his artificial-intelligence process DABUS as a patent inventor, arguing again that the procedure is an “unique” underneath federal law.

Thaler is tough an August ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that the Patent Act does not enable patents for AI-created innovations since it interprets the expression “personal” as relating to inventors to necessarily mean a “natural person.”

“Merriam-Webster favors our definition of ‘individual,'” Thaler told Reuters on Monday. Thaler’s attorney Ryan Abbott of Brown Neri Smith & Khan said the Federal Circuit’s determination “was not steady with Supreme Court precedent or the language and function of the Patent Act.”

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Place of work declined to comment.

Thaler utilised DABUS, shorter for Unit for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience, to create styles for a beverage holder and a light beacon. The PTO and a Virginia court docket turned down patent apps from Thaler in search of to credit rating DABUS as the inventor on the grounds that the program is not a human getting.

Thaler challenged the conclusions at the Federal Circuit, which hears patent appeals. Circuit Choose Leonard Stark wrote for a unanimous 3-judge panel very last thirty day period that “there is no ambiguity: the Patent Act calls for that inventors ought to be normal folks that is, human beings.”

Stark claimed the Patent Act demands inventors to be “people today,” and that an “personal” is a human, citing the word’s regular use and its context in the Patent Act.

Thaler requested a rehearing on Monday, both ahead of a new panel or the comprehensive Federal Circuit. He argued the panel disregarded dictionary definitions and U.S. Supreme Court docket precedent that states an “particular person” is only a singular entity and not necessarily a organic particular person.

Thaler also argued that disallowing AI-invented patents goes from the Patent Act’s function to promote innovation.

“At minimal, the Panel Impression really should have wrestled with the ambiguity designed by technological evolution, and the results that circulation from prohibiting patents on AI-generated innovations,” Thaler reported.

Courts in Australia, Europe and the United Kingdom have likewise rejected tries by Thaler to identify DABUS as a patent inventor. DABUS has acquired a patent in South Africa.

The circumstance is Thaler v. Vidal, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, No. 21-2347.

For Thaler: Ryan Abbott of Brown Neri Smith & Khan

For the PTO: Dennis Barghaan of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Japanese District of Virginia

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