DABUS, an AI algorithm, Gets Its First Patent as inventor in South Africa

Watch Africa, a continent with over 1.2 billion people many of which are dynamic young people gets in motion! History waits for no one especially not for the all too cozy, comfortable gerontocracies of Western countries!

 

"South Africa’s patent office has granted the first patent for an invention conceived by an artificial intelligence (AI) inventor, DABUS. ...
DABUS stands for “device for the autonomous bootstrapping of unified sentience” and it has attempted to procure patents in the European Union, United Kingdom and United States with no luck. Most recently, the European Patent Office (EPO) Board of Appeal (BOA) issued two preliminary communications in appeals of the EPO’s rejection of the DABUS patents in which the BOA agreed with the EPO’s January 2020 decisions, and said that, under the European Patent Convention (EPC), an inventor on a patent application must have “legal capacity,” meaning the “ability, according to a source of law, to be the subject of rights and duties.” Oral proceedings are scheduled for December 21, 2021. ..."

DABUS Gets Its First Patent in South Africa Under Formalities Examination (Credits) “We are moving from an age in which invention was the preserve of people to an era where machines are capable of realizing the inventive step.” –  Professor Adrian Hilton