An artificial intelligence has invented a food container with a practical adaption for the transfer of heat into and out of the container.
Erik van der Vyver, partner at Von Seidels, explained why SA was able to grant AI a patent. But he also stressed that none of the countries which declined the patent had any objections to the actual product which they agreed is patent eligible
“SA laws differ in that there is no explicit requirement in our laws, specifically the Patents Act, that an inventor be a natural person, neither has the issue been considered by our courts. Provided that a SA patent application complies with certain formal requirements, which in this case it did, our Patent Office actually has no grounds on which to reject a patent application.
In 2017 their research resulted in AI chatbots Alice and Bob who learned to communicate with each other. But because the researchers did not specify they 'speak' in English, the bots created their own shorthand language for quicker communication. Dabus will be named as the inventor according to section 27 of the SA Patents Act, the person who created the AI, in this case Dr Stephen Thaler, is the patent holder.
“We can expect inventions made by AI to become more commonplace — in drug discovery in particular, which means that patent laws across the world need to be evaluated for their suitability in protecting such inventions.
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