EPO and UKIPO Refuse AI-Invented Patent Applications

Re:EPO and UKIPO Refuse AI-Invented Patent Applications by ellimilial on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @07:56AM (#21990953)

Well, maybe not humour in the end.

If we can't distinguish between machine and human-generated ideas how does it affect the patent system?

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Re:EPO and UKIPO Refuse AI-Invented Patent Applications by neiman on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @08:07AM (#21991038)

Yeah, the joke did have some insight to it. I'm a mathematician, where theorems cannot be patented. It makes things so much easier in case we'll start proving (some simple) theorems using computers in the near future.

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Re:EPO and UKIPO Refuse AI-Invented Patent Applications by ellimilial on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @08:10AM (#21991063)

Didn't mathematicians earn million-dollar rewards for their theorem - proving? :-)

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Re:EPO and UKIPO Refuse AI-Invented Patent Applications by neiman on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @08:18AM (#21991123)

Though I'm a mathematician I still think my odds are bigger winning the lottery than proving one of those million-dollar millennium problems :p

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