NZ High Court says an AI cannot be named as an inventor on a patent
On 17 March 2023, the High Court of New Zealand issued its decision on whether ‘Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of United Sentience’ (DABUS), an artificial intelligence (AI) system, could be named as an inventor in a New Zealand patent application: Thaler v Commissioner of Patents [2023] NZHC 554. The High Court said that it...