AI Rookies

AI Inventorship

Fact

The legal question of whether AI can be named as a patent inventor.

In Plain Words

AI Inventorship is a robot winning the school science fair. Whose name goes on the blue ribbon?

It decides whose name goes on a patent. You meet it in AI-made drugs and new materials.

Related Concepts

Copyright
Both ask who should own work made with AI.

AI-regulation
AI-regulation must say if AI can be named as an inventor.

AI-assisted Research
More AI work in research makes inventor credit harder to draw.

AI Drug Discovery
AI Drug Discovery often pushes this patent question into the spotlight.