Biden AI Order Sets Patent Office Deadline On Invention Controls

President Joe Biden’s executive order on artificial intelligence presses the US Patent and Trademark Office to accelerate its timeline for new guidance on eligibility and inventorship.

The Patent Office has previously sought input on whether AI can be credited as an inventor and floated the possibility of requesting comments on how the technology may alter what renders an invention too obvious for protection. The order now gives the agency four months to address AI’s role in inventions and less than a year to deliver broader guidelines on how the technology will affect intellectual property rights.

The guidance could create higher ...