By Melissa Ritti ( October 30, 2026, 13:30 GMT | Comment) -- A recent report by the World Intellectual Property Organization Secretariat laid out options for documenting artificial intelligence use in the inventive process, assessing AI-generated material as prior art and how AI tools can, or should, factor into the analysis of obviousness. Member states will discuss possible approaches to addressing those issues, and more, at a five-day meeting next week.The next patent fight over artificial intelligence might not be whether a machine can invent, but whether a human contributed enough to qualify as an inventor, whether an AI-generated disclosure defeats novelty or whether access to AI tools makes an invention obvious....
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