人工智能能否成爲專利權人?--DABUS系列案例述評

Can Artificial Intelligence Be Patent Inventor?--Comments on "DABUs" Cases

人工智能技術的發展引發了人工智能的法律問題,其中之就是人工智能是否可作為某一“發明”的唯一專利權人。具體而言,這一問題需要回答“人工智能”是否因其所具有的“智能”而完成達到專利法意義上創造性標準的發明,進而被認定為具有權利能力和行為能力的知識產權主體。2019年以來,美國、歐盟、英國、新西蘭、澳大利亞、南非陸續發布的有關DA-BUS系列案的裁决引發了對該問題的初步討論。

The development of artificial intelligence(AI)technology has triggered legal issues regarding AI,one of which is whether Al can be the sole patentee of an“invention”.To be specific,this issue cannot be solved unless we make it clear whether“Al”can achieve an invention that meets the inventiveness requirement in the sense of the patent law due to its“intelligence”and thereby be recognized as an intellectual property entity having the capacity to have rights and the capacity to act upon those rights.Since 2019,the judgments in the DABUS cases successively made by the United States,the European Union,the United Kingdom,New Zealand,Australia,and South Africa have given rise to preliminary discussion on this issue.