2024年12月25日 星期三

歐洲專利局駁回DABUS分割申請案 (25.11.2024)

Article 81 Designation of the inventor 
The European patent application shall designate the inventor. If the applicant is not the inventor or is not the sole inventor, the designation shall contain a statement indicating the origin of the right to the European patent.

歐洲專利申請案應指定發明人,如果申請人不是發明人或是不是唯一發明人,需要指出權利來源的聲明 - 權利讓與。

Article 60 Right to a European patent
(1)The right to a European patent shall belong to the inventor or his successor in title. If the inventor is an employee, the right to a European patent shall be determined in accordance with the law of the State in which the employee is mainly employed; if the State in which the employee is mainly employed cannot be determined, the law to be applied shall be that of the State in which the employer has the place of business to which the employee is attached.

歐洲專利權應屬於發明人或其繼承人,如果發明人是公司員工,權利為"主要"僱用人所有;如果沒有主要雇用人,就屬於其工作地點的雇用人。

2024年歐洲口審(oral proceedings)決定
決定日期:25 November 2024
案件編號:...
專利申請號:21216024.6(申請日:20.12.2021;為之前爭議的母案(EP18275163,申請日:17.10.2018)後續分割案(divisional application))
專利申請人:Thaler, Stephen L.

從EPO patent register可找到資料:

本案為專利申請人Thaler, Stephen L.提出的分割申請案,因為發明人(由DABUS自主產生發明內容)無法指定權利讓與給申請人,同樣地,歐洲專利局根據Art. 81 EPC駁回專利申請案。案件進入oral proceedings,申請人補件強調已經取得有效的發明人聲明文件,且強調AI擁有人就是專利權人,如果專利局無法接受Dabus為發明人,也使得申請人無法指定發明人,分割申請案中特別補充Thaler為發明人,也是Dabus的擁有人。


歐洲專利局還是駁回Dr. Stephen Thaler提出「DABUS」為發明人的專利申請案,駁回理由依據Article 81、Article 61(1)(第一句)。


決定:

口審決定文後補充整個案件關於"designation of inventor"概況:


過去歐洲專利局就已經駁回以AI作為發明人的申請案:
2020年 - 歐洲專利局駁回AI為發明人的專利申請案(https://enpan.blogspot.com/2020/09/ai.html
2021年訴願決定(J 0008/20 (Designation of inventor/DABUS) 21-12-2021):https://www.epo.org/en/boards-of-appeal/decisions/j200008eu1


"DABUS"相關報導:
- 日本AI發明專利的適格性筆記之三 - 日本軟體/AI發明的專利適格性 (Open Edition)(https://enpan.blogspot.com/2024/08/ai-ai-open-edition.html)
- 英國最高法院否決A.I.發明人 - [2023] UKSC 49(https://enpan.blogspot.com/2024/01/ai-2023-uksc-49.html)
- 歐洲專利局駁回AI為發明人的專利申請案(https://enpan.blogspot.com/2020/09/ai.html)
- A.I.發明人Dabus的申請案以及澳洲聯邦法院案例(https://enpan.blogspot.com/2021/08/aidabus.html)
- A.I.發明人現況 - DABUS / Thaler v. Vidal(https://enpan.blogspot.com/2023/04/ai-dabus-thaler-v-vidal.html)
- AI不是法律上之「人」- 110年度行專訴字第3號(https://enpan.blogspot.com/2021/09/ai-1103.html)
- A.I.發明人!Mr. A.I.(https://enpan.blogspot.com/2020/04/aimr-ai.html)
- A.I.不能是發明人;或說發明人不能是非人類 - Thaler v. Hirshfeld, App No. 21-02347 (Fed. Cir. 2022)(https://enpan.blogspot.com/2023/04/ai-thaler-v-hirshfeld-app-no-21-02347.html)


這篇內容列出IP5(世界五大專利國)的DABUS案件整理:




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