Nataliia Bulat

The increasing popularity of generative AI leads to challenges for intellectual property (IP) law, such as how legislation should treat AI-generated objects and how to protect them. Currently, some jurisdictions provide legislative mechanisms for regulating AI-generated objects within the framework of copyright and/or design law. For example, the UK, Ireland, Hong Kong, New Zealand, India, South Africa, and Ukraine protect AI-generated objects by copyright law. In addition, the UK, Ireland, and Hong Kong provide protection for AI-generated designs. Regarding the treatment of AI outputs by patent law, it is worth mentioning the DABUS case which raised the question in different jurisdictions whether AI can be identified as an inventor. In most cases, IP offices answered this question in the negative, and further court proceedings confirmed the requirement of human inventorship. The current project aims to analyze whether AI-generated outputs can and should be protected, and whether the level of human contribution required for now in the inventive process – when AI is involved – is sufficient to protect the outputs within the existing patent law paradigm.

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