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U.S. Patent and Trademark Office declares that only a person can receive patent protections.
The news arrived via “guidance,” which is to say official policy but not ironclad rule.
There was a legal question as to whether, when a patent is evaluated for awarding to an “individual,’ whether that individual must be a human, or whether an AI model can be an individual.
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