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US patent office confirms AI can’t hold patents (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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US patent office confirms AI can’t hold patents::The US Patent and Trademark Office maintains that only natural humans can get patents, but people do have to disclose if they used AI for the invention.

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[–] You999@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

That's a horrible idea as it would essentially would prevent anyone but mega corporations from obtaining a patent. Right now for around 20k anyone can get a patent on their original idea but if you change it to R&D investment protection some company could just out spend you on R&D (whether or not that even makes it a better product mind you) and claim the patent. This would kill many small businesses industries especially the hobbyist accessories business.

Also you can't patent a web page layout, that would be filed under the copywrite system as intellectual property.

[–] Buttons@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click#Patent

One click purchasing is little more than a web page layout and it was patented. The patent was reexamined and partially upheld too.

Also, I just think, morally speaking, that just because you had an idea, the opportunity of having the same idea shouldn't be denied to everyone else.

John Carmack said it well:

"The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying."

[–] You999@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

One click purchasing is a website element not a layout. If you read the patent there's a bit more going on then just here's a button that purchases items. The patent describes how the front end and backend works in order to make it work and that's what separates it from being 'just a layout' and makes it patentable.