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Scientist refused permission to appeal in landmark UK AI inventorship case

By Douglas Clarke-Williams ( November 21, 2025, 15:14 GMT | Insight) -- Computer scientist Stephen Thaler, who tried to name an AI program as the inventor of two patents, has been refused permission to appeal over the refusal of an attempt to instead list himself as the inventor. The High Court had upheld the UK Intellectual Property Office's rejection of his application, made following a ruling by the Supreme Court that AI could not be named as the inventor of a patent.A computer scientist's long-running battle against the UK Intellectual Property Office over two patents that he claims were invented by an AI program of his own design was brought to an end on Friday....

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