{"id":39286,"date":"2022-06-28T18:45:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T18:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tahrir2day.com\/news\/2022\/06\/28\/uk-decides-ai-still-cannot-patent-inventions\/"},"modified":"2022-06-28T18:45:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T18:45:12","slug":"uk-decides-ai-still-cannot-patent-inventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tahrir2day.com\/news\/2022\/06\/28\/uk-decides-ai-still-cannot-patent-inventions\/","title":{"rendered":"UK decides AI still cannot patent inventions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The UK Intellectual Property Office has ruled that artificial intelligence systems cannot patent inventions for the time being.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Patents transfer ownership of a new invention to its creator.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A recent IPO consultation revealed that many experts doubt that AI can currently invent without human help.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Current law allows people to patent inventions made with the help of AI, the government said, despite “false assumptions” that is not the case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Last year, the Court of Appeal ruled against Stephen Thaler, who said his Dabus AI system should be recognized as an inventor in two patent applications:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    The judges, by a two-to-one majority, sided with the IPO, which had asked it to name a real person as the inventor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    “Only a person can have rights – not a machine,” wrote Lady Justice Laing in her judgment. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    “A patent is a legal right and can only be granted to a person.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    But the IPO also said it needed to “understand how our IP regime is designed to protect AI-developed inventions in the future” and pledged to advance international discussions to keep the UK competitive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    In July 2021, in a case also brought by Mr. Thaler, an Australian court ruled that AI systems could be recognized as inventors for patent purposes. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    Days earlier, South Africa had issued a similar ruling. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    Many AI systems are trained with large amounts of data copied from the Internet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    And on Tuesday, the IPO also announced plans to amend copyright law to allow anyone with lawful access — and not just those conducting non-commercial research, as they are now — to “allow the use of AI technology and beyond.” support financially”. Data mining techniques for the public good”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    Rightsholders will still be able to control access to and charge for their works, but will no longer charge additional fees for the ability to mine them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    More and more people are using AI tools like DALL.E 2 to create images that resemble a human work of art.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    And Mr. Thaler recently sued the US Copyright Office for its refusal to recognize a software system as the “author” of an image, the Register reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    In the consultation, the IPO noted that the UK is one of only a handful of countries protecting computer-generated works without a human creator. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    The “author” of a “computer-generated work” is defined as “the person by whom the necessary arrangements for the creation of the work are taken,” it says. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    And the protection lasts 50 years from the creation of the work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    Performing arts union Equity had called for a copyright change to protect actors’ livelihoods from AI content such as “deepfakes” generated from images of their face or voice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    The IPO took this issue seriously, it said, but “at this stage, the impact of AI technologies on artists remains unclear.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    “We will keep an eye on these issues,” he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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