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Rejecting a review appeal for a patent on an AI's work, the US Copyright Office has reiterated that a non-human entity cannot benefit from the copyright laws and that human authorship is necessary for the same.
Rejecting a review appeal for a patent on an AI's work, the US Copyright Office has reiterated that a non-human entity cannot benefit from the copyright laws and that human authorship is necessary for the same.
The question of whether a country’s Patent Act requires an inventor to be a human being is a question of statutory construction. For example, in the U.S. the statute requires an application for patent be made by the inventor…in writing to the Director according to the U.S. Patent Act.