Mike Masnick, writing for TechDirt: We’ve written a bunch about why AI generated artwork should not (and need not) have any copyright at all. The law says that copyright only applies to human creators. But what about patents? There has been a big debate about this in the patent space over the last year, mainly lead by AI developers who want to be able to secure patents on AI generated ideas. The patent offices in the EU and the US have been exploring the issue, and asking for feedback, while they plot out a strategy, but some AI folks decided to force the matter sooner. Over the summer they announced that they had filed for two patents in the EU for inventions that they claim were “invented” by an AI named DABUS without the assistance of a human inventor. And now, the EU Patent Office has rejected both patents, since they don’t have a human inventor.

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Source: Slashdot – EU Patent Office Rejects Two Patent Applications in Which an AI Was Designated As the Inventor