AI cannot be an inventor Article by Andrew Horne

AI cannot be an inventor: Thaler litigation update by Andrew Horne was recently published in the Law Society of NSW Journal.

The article provides an analysis of Thaler v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks [2023] UKSC 49 in which the UK Supreme Court found that an artificial intelligence system cannot be an ‘inventor’ for purposes of being granted a patent and how that decision might have implications for future Australian proceedings in which that issue is raised.

A preview to this article can be found here