South Africa was wrong to patent an AI’s ‘invention’By Christopher Mhangwane and David Cochrane8 December 2022 The CIPC in 2021 became the first patent office in the world to grant a patent listing an artificial intelligence as the inventor.
In a world first, SA grants a patent listing an AI as the inventorBy The Conversation5 August 2021 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.
