Inventorship in AI-Assisted Inventions: Designing an Experiment to Shape Case Law
The latest improvements in artificial intelligence (AI) raise new challenges for intellectual property laws, particularly concerning the inventorship issue in AI-assisted inventions - that is, those in which AI is used in the inventive process. While most jurisdictions allow only a natural person to be considered the inventor, the question of how to deal with AI-assisted inventions remains relevant. Namely, what is the nature and contribution of AI tools in an AI-assisted invention that would prevent a human from being recognized as its inventor? The main challenge in addressing this question is the lack of case law on the issue. It is reasonable to assume that with the development of AI ...
| Authors | Yevhenii Shchetynin, Duygu Usta, Bryan Khan |
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| Primary category | cs.CY |
| Published | 15 May 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 15 May 2026 |
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