📑 In a landmark ruling, the European Patent Office (EPO) has rejected two patent applications1 wherein request was lodged with the EPO for designating the machine (Artificial Intelligence) as an “inventor”.The ground cited for rejecting the aforementioned patent applications is that the patent applications did not meet the requisite requirement as enumerated under the EPC that an inventor designated in the application should be a human being, not the machine.

🔖 Hence an AI cannot be declared an inventor in the eyes of law.