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A First: An AI System Has Been Named An Inventor

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Abbott and his team filed applications in 2018 and 2019 in 17 patent offices around the world, including in the United States, several European countries, China, Japan, and India. He and a group of patent lawyers decided to seek out a test case to help establish a legal precedent. The European Patent Office (EPO), the U.K. Charles, Mo.