Patents are a great tool for innovators. They serve as a means to protect your hard work and creativity. So, if you’re going to use a tool it’s certainly important to know how it works, right? We hear from clients who don’t truly understand the full scope of patent protection. In general, people assume a patent can only be applied to a specific device or item. They believe the entirety of the object itself will be Read More
Inventorship is for Humans Only
In a fascinating case, a Federal District Judge in Virginia has held that an AI cannot be an inventor and therefore cannot patent its inventions. Last week, Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled the current patent law is “crystal clear” – only humans can be inventors. Any expansion of inventorship beyond individual human beings would require an act of Congress. But surely the human inventor of the AI can claim inventorship of Read More
