Patent Office to Solicit Public Input on AI’s Role in Invention

The US Patent and Trademark Office will hold a listening session on artificial intelligence’s contribution to new inventions this month seeking stakeholders’ feedback on the issue.

The event scheduled for April 25 will address the “current state of AI technologies and inventorship issues,” including whether AI should qualify as an inventor and whether the PTO should expand its current guidance, according to a Federal Register notice set to publish Friday. It will be held at the patent office’s headquarters in Alexandria, Va.

With the rapid rise of AI systems, the PTO has indicated that it is taking a closer look ...