AI Machines Can't Invent, USPTO Tells Judge

By Dorothy Atkins ( February 24, 2021, 8:49 PM EST) -- The U. S. Patent and Trademark Office asked a Virginia federal judge Wednesday to hand it an early win in a man's lawsuit challenging its finding that patents cannot cover inventions by artificial intelligence machines, arguing the Patent Act defines an inventor as an "individual" who must be human. . . .

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