Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a robot or
machine that thinks like humans and
mimics actions of human cognition such as speech,
perception, vision, and even decision making. AI has already
started affecting the legal sphere including the Intellectual
Property laws for which Patent offices are now facing challenges in
various ways. The issue of patent protection for AI is in the
process of getting resolved and new guidelines are being issued to
process AI-related inventions. Curiously, the question of AI as an
inventor became a point of discussion, when two patent applications
EP 1875163 and EP 18275174, also known as DABUS patents, were filed
in EPO naming AI as an inventor.
While thousands of AI-related patent applications are being
filed all over the globe, the two AI-related DABUS patent
applications filed with AI as an inventor remained unnoticed until
their examination. The two patent applications directed towards a
beverage container and a flashing device
