Introduction
We have come a long way since 1955 when John McCarthy, winner of
the Turing Prize in 1971 defined Artificial Intelligence (AI) as
"Making a machine behaves in ways that would be called
intelligent if human were so behaving". It is only
recently that AI technology has undergone a rapid progress and has
become one of the hottest trends of the present world. The impact
of AI on our day to day lives is intensively being deliberated upon
in almost every corner of the world. It has garnered much needed
attention not only from the business sector and academia but also
from the policy makers and judiciary.
AI questions the most conventional Intellectual Property legal
principles, such as "author", "creator",
"originality", or "inventiveness". Can a
machine be an author or an inventor? Should AI generated inventions
be considered state of art? Who is the owner of AI generated works
or inventions? Who should be held responsible for the creations and
innovations