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Thaler v. Vidal
Thaler v. Vidal (Fed. Cir. 2022): only natural persons can be inventors.
Citation: Thaler v. Vidal, 43 F.4th 1207 (Fed. Cir. 2022)
Type: Case
Jurisdiction: Federal
Issuing body: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Status: Decided
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Parties: Thaler v. Vidal
Proceeding: court decision
The Patent Act's use of the term inventor refers only to natural persons, so an AI system cannot be named as an inventor. The USPTO presumes the natural persons named in an application are correct.
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