Interesting article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch regarding an invention that invented an inventon (both of which are patented).
The article states that:
His first patent was for a Device for the Autonomous Generation of Useful Information,” the official name of the Creativity Machine, Miller said. “His second patent was for the Self-Training Neural Network Object. Patent Number Two was invented by Patent Number One. Think about that. Patent Number Two was invented by Patent Number One!
I thought the rule was that an inventor must be a “person.” For instance, 37 CFR §1.41(a) states that “[a] patent is applied for in the name or names of the actual inventor or inventors.”
Anyone have any additional insight on this?
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