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US Patent Office: AI is all well and good, but only humans can patent things

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The question of where AI sits in the legal personhood stack isn’t as simple as it may seem (i.e. “nowhere”) — but the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today declared that, as with other intellectual property, only a person can receive its official protections. The news arrived via “guidance,” which is to say official policy […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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