Australia Appeal Decision Reverses Direction On AI Inventorship

Over the past few years technology evangelist and inventor Stephen Thaler, together with the Artificial Inventor Project, has campaigned for patent law changes  across jurisdictions to recognize artificial intelligence (AI) as an inventor on patent applications. To further their goal, the group filed  patent applications in various jurisdictions around the world listing an AI agent named “DABUS” as the sole inventor. Traditionally, only humans who contributed to an invention's conception may be listed as inventors on a patent application. But Thaler's patent applications ran contrary to this convention, proposing that DABUS should be listed as the inventor because the invention disclosed in the patent applications was produced entirely by the AI agent without human involvement.