American Enterprise Institute

The Case Against Allowing Machines to Patent Inventions

What are the arguments against allowing artificial intelligence (AI) to patent inventions? Following initial surveys of the issue, in our last piece we examined the arguments in favor of machine ...

A Penn State inventor brought the world’s first double Dutch machine to Philly

At 8 years old, Tahira Reid Smith drew the one thing she wished she owned: a double Dutch machine in never-ending motion. As ...
JD Supra

AI has no personality: EPO rules that an AI machine cannot be an inventor in patent applications

In the patent grant proceedings for two European Patent Applications, the EPO has ruled that an AI machine cannot be named as an inventor in a Patent Application. Doing so does not comply with the ...

10 game-changing inventions you might not realize come from IBM

Discover 10 surprising inventions from IBM that revolutionized technology. Learn the history behind the tools and systems ...
JD Supra

DABUS & AUKUS: A Tale of Three Approaches to the Question of Whether an Invention Created by a Machine Using Artificial Intelligence is Patentable

A number of countries have now issued decisions on whether a patent can be granted to Dr. Stephen Thaler for an invention made by a machine named DABUS. In response to a request by the United Kingdom ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

How the invention of the sewing machine led to other modern marvels

How do inventions happen? NPR's Planet Money's team brings us the history of one underappreciated invention that has enabled countless other inventions, from the Phillips screwdriver to Bluetooth. You ...
American Enterprise Institute

The Case for Allowing Machines to Patent Inventions

There’s a strong case to be made for allowing machines to invent other machines. We recently examined the logic and legality behind the notion of artificial intelligence (AI) gaining the ability to ...