Imogen Ireland and Jason Lohr of Hogan Lovells examine the recent decisions on “DABUS” to show why AI inventors are not just a future problem In 2018 and 2019, parallel patent applications were filed ...

Despite the world first, South Africa’s IP office does not formally examine patents – so the registration could yet be opposed South Africa has become the first country to issue a patent designating ...

The judgment by the English Court of Appeal regarding the DABUS case, addressing the patenting of inventions “invented” by artificial intelligence (AI), is distinguished by a dissenting judgment by ...

At first glance, a recently granted South African patent to DABUS, relating to a “food container based on fractal geometry” seems fairly mundane. On closer inspection, the patent is anything but ...

“The panel agreed with the proposition that a patent may only be granted ‘to the inventor or somebody claiming though the inventor.’ The latter can only arise from a natural person, and not from a ...