Evolution of Artificial Intelligence- Rights and Liability through the Prism of Patent Laws
N K Thiruveni, P Brinda · Journal of Intellectual Property Rights · 2025
Technological development has led to a path towards the invention of man-made machines which not onlyreceiveinformation but comprehend and make decisions on their own. One of the man-mademachines in the field of computerscience is Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI constitutes both cognitive and emotional intelligence. The jurisprudence of such aninvention raises a core question of whetherArtificial Intelligence can be attributed to the status of personhood. It is anunsettled position of law, whether AI can be given an inventorship. There are two parallel views in recognising AI as aninventor. One view is that it is an automated man-made machine, and another view is that it can be considered as an inventorwhen the invention is novel without human intervention.This paper illustrates the legal basis on which the scope ofgrantinginventorship to an AI in the current patent regime and its pitfalls.This has been elaborated using legal precedentsand the practical inferences drawn from them. This article gives an overview of the development of AI and points out theboxes that must be ticked by policymaking in India.