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Revised inventorship guidance for AI assisted invention

2025

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1) This guidance clarifies the USPTO's stance on inventorship for AI-assisted inventions, emphasizing that only natural persons can be inventors and AI is a tool.
2) * Rescinds previous guidance and reaffirms that AI cannot be named as an inventor.
* Establishes that the traditional legal standard for conception applies to AI-assisted inventions.
* Outlines inventorship rules for utility, design, and plant patents, including priority claims.
3) AI, inventorship, patent law, USPTO, conception

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