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13 February 2024NewsPatentsSarah Speight
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USPTO: AI-assisted inventions ‘not categorically unpatentable’

US Patent and Trademark Office publishes ‘clear’ guidance mandating AI-related patents to have ‘significant’ human involvement | Kathi Vidal: ‘patent system was developed to incentivise and protect human ingenuity’ | ‘Right balance must be struck’ between IP protection and innovation.

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