Ikenna C Ejimonyeugwo

Ikenna C Ejimonyeugwo

November 22, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

Inventorship and Patentability of Artificial Intelligence-Based Inventions

The quandary is whether an AI platform that assists in creating an invention should be named as an inventor in a patent. For example, an AI-powered system may be employed pharmaceutically to identify molecular compounds in the discovery of a newly invented drug, without much human involvement. Does such AI assistance rise to the level of inventorship?

By Philip L. Hirschhorn and Ikenna C. Ejimonyeugwo

6 minute read