Patent Act requires an inventor to be a natural person, not an AI [pdf]
It seems the status-quo will be maintained for now. I think that's good, there's too many unanswered questions about AI.<p>If AI can create patents, can AI also publish prior art? It seems only fair, right?<p>But, in that case, the same AI technology used to file 1,000 patents would be used to create a million trillion publications of prior art. If an AI can produce something worthy of patent, then a freely published version of the same would surely count as prior art. We'd end up with the "great tome of prior art" a 500 terabyte download filled with patent worthy ideas but freely published to establish prior art. This is just one of the many things we might find in Pandora's Box of AI patents.