While the ‘rise of the machines’ may still be years away, difficult questions are starting to emerge around artificial intelligence (AI) and its applications.

One such arena is patent rights. Writing for Legaltech News, Hogan Lovells’ Jason Lohr asks readers to consider a scenario: A company develops AI software, executes it on its servers, then uses company data to train the software. So, when inventions are “discovered as a result of the AI algorithm learning and operating in that contained environment,” who gets listed as the inventor? Does anyone have the rights to the invention?

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