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Porträtt av Ana Nordberg. Foto.

Ana Nordberg

Universitetslektor

Porträtt av Ana Nordberg. Foto.

Creative Machines, Orphan Inventions: AI and the concept of inventor at the EPO

Författare

  • Ana Nordberg

Redaktör

  • Marie Karlsson-Tuula
  • Per Jonas Nordell
  • Frantzeska Papadopoulou
  • Annina H. Persson

Summary, in English

In 2018, an AI system named by its creator DABUS (Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience) was credited by its creator to have independently invented a neural flame and a fractal container. According to its creator, DABUS is a ‘sentient artificial general intelligence can replicate all aspects of human cognition, including perception, creativity, consciousness, and sentience’ and these creative machines are capable of having ‘subjective feelings about their cognitive products.’ (Thaler, 2021).

This chapter analyses the ongoing attempts to patent the output of this AI system at the EPO, the decision of the receiving section and legal board of appeal (JBA), discussing a selection of relevant points of law raised by this case. Several decisions concerning the DABUS case have also been issued at national level, a few will be very briefly analyzed to provide context to the ensuing discussion on de lege ferenda proposals for legislative interventions regarding orphan inventions.

Avdelning/ar

  • Health Law
  • Affärsrättsligt centrum vid Lunds Universitet, ACLU
  • Juridiska institutionen

Publiceringsår

2022-09-24

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

159-180

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Magna Mater Marianne Levin 2022 : Festskrift till Marianne Levin

Dokumenttyp

Del av eller Kapitel i bok

Förlag

Jure

Ämne

  • Law

Nyckelord

  • Private law
  • Patent law
  • Patententability of AI
  • AI inventions
  • Concept of inventor
  • AI & patent law
  • Civilrätt
  • Patenträtt

Aktiv

Published

Projekt

  • AI and Automated systems and the Right to Health - Revisiting law accounting for the exploitation of users’ preferences and values (AICARE)

Forskningsgrupp

  • Health Law
  • Lund University Centre for Business Law (Swedish abbr: ACLU)

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 978-91-7223-887-9