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Chris Mammen Pens “AI as Inventor” Chapter in New Cambridge Press Book on Artificial Intelligence
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Chris Mammen has contributed a chapter to a new book published by Cambridge Press. His chapter focuses on the topic of AI inventors. This contribution delves into the complex legal and ethical questions surrounding whether AI systems can be recognized as inventors and how this impacts intellectual property rights.
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About Dr. Christian E. Mammen
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Chris Mammen has established a reputation as a go-to source for discussing artificial intelligence and the law, particularly involving the legal question of “Can an AI be an inventor?”
In fact, in a recent book titled The Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, published by Cambridge University Press, Chris authored the chapter on “AI as Inventor.”
The chapter analyzes the impact of AI and IP Law. In August 2019, news reports carried stories about the first patent applications naming an AI algorithm, called DABUS, as an inventor on patent applications. Almost immediately, the United States Patent Office published a request for comments, asking questions about how it should approach AI and patent law. Less than a year later, the questions were seemingly definitively resolved. Mammen analyzes these developments and looks at where the concept of “AI as Inventor” may be heading.
The Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence examines the issues raised by AI and provides practical recommendations for regulatory, technical, and theoretical frameworks aimed at making AI compatible with existing legal rules, principles, and democratic values.
In a recent client alert, Chris, along with Womble Bond Dickinson associate Ting Zheng, issued an alert exploring the U.S. Copyright Office’s recent Notice of Inquiry regarding copyright and artificial intelligence. The alert discusses how the Office is approaching questions surrounding copyright and AI, and what that may mean in the future.
Chris serves on the Advisory Boards for the annual Berkeley-Stanford Advanced Patent Law Institute, and for the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, the top ranked IP program in the U.S. For the past three years, he has been named to Law three sixty’s IP Editorial Advisory Board, and for the past five years he has been the principal author for the U.S. patent litigation chapter in Kluwer Law International’s Global Patent Litigation treatise.
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