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.
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.