AI won’t become inventive until 2075 – the threshold for their solvency is decades away
Croft 22 – Journalist for Financial Times covering law courts.
Jane Croft, June 15 2022, “Inability to patent AI creations could hit business investment,” Financial Times, https://www.ft.com/content/eaff4b88-988c-409c-b0c6-86573dfcd253
Noam Shemtov, professor in IP and technology law at London’s Queen Mary University, notes that most AI experts hold the view that this threshold will only be reached in 2075, and so the current law is sufficient. “It therefore makes little sense for the patent regime to gear up at present for such speculative development,” he says.
Most of the responses to an October 2020 consultation by the US Patent and Trademark Office agreed that current AI could neither invent nor author without human intervention, and so existing US intellectual property laws already address the evolution of AI.