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DABUS is an Artificial System which has been granted patent by South Africa for invention of “food containers based on fractal geometry”. The AI has designed interlocking food containers that are easy for robots to grasp.
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UK’s Intellectual Property Office and the European Patent Office had both rejected patent applications regarding inventions made by DABUS.
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There is an opposition for this patent because the inventor in this case is not a human being.
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Under present patent law, only natural persons may be named as an inventor in a patent application.
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Also, ideas, for the purposes of patents, require the element of “mental conception” something of which only a human mind is capable.
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Further, inventorship comes with rights, which AI is not legally capable of possessing.