A supreme court holds that only natural persons can be named inventors

Claim

Japan's Supreme Court shut the door on naming an AI system the inventor on a patent application, holding that only natural persons qualify, while a Right to Intelligence campaign argued people should freely run open models so long as fraud and abuse stay prosecuted.

Reporting date: 2026-07-03 (not necessarily the event date)

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