Patenting AI-Assisted Inventions: USPTO’s Guidelines on Inventorship
Ronald Allan Desiderio2024-07-16T04:32:55-04:00By: Editorial Staff, Date: July 9th, 2024 As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to revolutionize various industries, its integration into inventions presents new challenges for patent law, particularly in the area of inventorship. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has actively addressed the complexities associated with AI-assisted inventions. In an effort to incentivize and protect human ingenuity in the age of AI, the USPTO published guidance, effective February 13, 2024, which provides a framework for determining whether a person can be named as an inventor for an AI-assisted invention. This article delves into USPTO’s guidance on AI-assisted [...]