Opening Word document…
Plan is unenforceable—it’s impossible to determine contribution.
Hadad 19 – Henry Hadad (President of the Intellectual Property Owners Association) “Re: Comments on Patenting Artificial Intelligence Inventions” US Patents and Trademark Office. November 11, 2019. https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Intellectual-Property-Owners-Association_RFC-84-FR-44889.pdf
If non-natural entities were afforded inventor status, additional downstream issues would also need to be addressed. For example, during an enforcement proceeding it would be impossible to depose an AI system concerning its contribution to determine whether it was properly listed as an inventor and what it meant by the use of terms in the specification and claims.
Sign in to recut, update, or save this card.