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Allowing AI as sole inventor could concentrate power in the hands of the ‘well-funded,’ USPTO director warns

By Melissa Ritti and Nick Robertson ( October 24, 2024, 20:15 GMT | Insight) -- In candid remarks today, US Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal suggested artificial intelligence-generated outputs without a “modicum of human inventorship” are unlikely to receive patent protection on her watch. Doing so, Vidal explained, could lead to a world in which “the well-funded ... including foreign adversaries,” seize control of the global patent system. Though expressing a desire to get various initiatives “across the finish line” by January, Vidal declined to discuss with MLex her long-term plans. US Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal faced a barrage of questions this morning from Ann Mueting, outgoing president of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, at the group’s annual meeting in Maryland....

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