A US computer system researcher on Wednesday shed his quote to sign up licenses over developments developed by his expert system system in a landmark case in Britain concerning whether AI can have patent legal rights.

Stephen Thaler intended to be given 2 licenses in the UK for developments he says were created by his “creativity machine” called DABUS.

His effort to sign up the licenses was declined by Britain’s Intellectual Property Office because the innovator should be a human or a business, as opposed to a maker.

Stephen Thaler attracted the UK’s Supreme Court, which on Wednesday with one voice denied his allure as under UK patent regulation “an inventor must be a natural person”.

“This appeal is not concerned with the broader question whether technical advances generated by machines acting autonomously and powered by AI should be patentable,” Judge David Kitchin stated in the court’s created ruling.

“Nor is it concerned with the question whether the meaning of the term ‘inventor’ ought to be expanded … to include machines powered by AI which generate new and non-obvious products and processes which may be thought to offer benefits over products and processes which are already known.”

Stephen Thaler’s attorneys stated in a declaration that “the judgment establishes that UK patent law is currently wholly unsuitable for protecting inventions generated autonomously by AI machines”.

Stephen Thaler previously this year shed a comparable quote in the United States, where the Supreme Court decreased to listen to a difficulty to the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s rejection to release licenses for developments developed by his AI system.

Giles Parsons, a companion at law office Browne Jacobson, that was not associated with the case, stated the UK Supreme Court’s ruling was unsurprising.

“This decision will not, at the moment, have a significant effect on the patent system,” he stated. “That’s because, for the time being, AI is a tool, not an agent.

“I do anticipate that will certainly transform in the tool term, yet we can manage that issue as it occurs.”

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