While the current law permits patenting of inventions that utilize AI, significant challenges exist when it comes to patenting inventions that are created by AI.
Back in 1955, John McCarthy coined the term “artificial intelligence” to represent the science of developing intelligent machines. The following year, McCarthy established AI as a field when he organized the Dartmouth Conference to operate under the “conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of [human] intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it.” While AI as a term and science may not be new, certain legal issues surrounding the patenting of AI inventions certainly is at its infancy.
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