What I want to see is patent officers using AI to label patent applications as "not novel" if the AI can invent it.
replyBut, since the income of a patent office is determined by how many patents they approve, one can dream ...
This is just as hair-brained as going down to the police station and claiming that your gun just murdered someone, then being surprised when they don't put the gun in jail.
replyThe law does not recognize the anthropomorphization of inanimate objects.
And yet this happens almost everyday where someone sues the gun maker instead of the person who pulled the trigger. It's blaming the spoon for making you fat scenario.
replyThere have been exactly zero cases of someone suing a gun.
replyA company is a different story, that is a group of people.
This story is not about companies holding patents -- companies absolutely can hold patents, because groups of people can hold patents.