The CIPC in 2021 became the first patent office in the world to grant a patent listing an artificial intelligence as the inventor.
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Recent decisions from South Africa and Australia that an artificial intelligence machine can be listed as inventor on a patent is putting greater pressure on the US and Europe to resolve debates over what it means to be an inventor.
At first glance, a recently granted South African patent relating to a “food container based on fractal geometry” seems fairly mundane. On closer inspection, it’s anything but.