Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
3-2023
Abstract
Artificial intelligence (“AI”) has garnered much attention in recent years, with capabilities spanning the operation of self-driving cars to the emulation of the great artistic masters of old. The field has now been ostensibly enlarged in light of the professed abilities of AI machines to autonomously generate patentable inventions. This article examines the present state of AI technology and the suitability of existing patent law frameworks in accommodating it. Looking ahead, the authors also offer two recommendations in a bid to anticipate and resolve the challenges that future developments in AI technology might pose to patent law. In particular, the case is made for fully autonomous machine inventors to be recognised as “inventors” by statute and for patent ownership of AI-generated inventions to be granted to the owners of these machine inventors by default.
Keywords
Patent Law, Patents, Artificial Intelligence, AI, (Fully Autonomous) AI Inventors, AI-generated Inventions, Inventorship, Patent Ownership and Entitlement
Discipline
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | Intellectual Property Law
Research Areas
Innovation, Technology and the Law
Publication
Singapore Journal of Legal Studies
Volume
[2023]
First Page
27
Last Page
51
ISSN
0218-2173
Publisher
National University of Singapore
Citation
SAW, Cheng Lim and CHAN, Zheng Wen Samuel.
Of inventorship and patent ownership: Examining the intersection between artificial intelligence and patent law. (2023). Singapore Journal of Legal Studies. [2023], 27-51.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/4271
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