28 April 2020PatentsSarah Morgan

Dabus rejected again as USPTO blocks AI ‘inventor’ patent

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has confirmed that an artificial intelligence (AI) can’t be named as an inventor on a patent application.

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