Download This PaperResponse to UK IPO Open Consultation on Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: Patents (Sept-Nov 2020)
2 Pages Posted: 4 May 2022
Date Written: November 30, 2020
Abstract
A comment on the idea of granting patents to AI as an inventor, assuming AI can pass the threshold of inventiveness required under patent law. The submission raises doubt that disclosure theory could justify awarding patents to AI, and calls on the UK IPO to look for empirical evidence that potential patentees are not investing in R&D of AI inventions.
Keywords: patents, artificial intelligence
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Liddicoat, Johnathon and Parish, James, Response to UK IPO Open Consultation on Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: Patents (Sept-Nov 2020) (November 30, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4070695 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4070695
James Parish
King's College London - The Dickson Poon School of Law ( email )
Somerset House East Wing
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London, WC2R 2LS
United Kingdom
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