🤖 NEWS: Could AI Developers Become Your Co-Inventors? By Stewart Myers | July 30, 2025 Read the full article → ipwatchdog.com/2025/07/30/the-real-danger-of-ai-developers-becoming-unwanted-co-inventors/id=190772 🚨 What’s happening? As inventors increasingly use AI tools to help develop new ideas, a new legal question is emerging: Should the people who build and train these AIs be considered co-inventors, and co-owners, of your patents? 📌 Key Takeaways: AI itself cannot be an inventor — U.S. patent law only allows natural humans to be named on patents. Using AI is okay — If a human makes a significant contribution to the invention, it’s still patentable even if AI helped. But there's a twist — If someone built a specialized AI to solve a particular problem (like drug design or battery innovation), they may have contributed to the invention's conception, and could be considered a co-inventor. This matters — Because co-inventors legally become co-owners. That means an AI developer might end up owning part of your invention, even if you never met them. General AI tools (like ChatGPT) are still considered non-inventive aids, similar to using software or a microscope, so their developers don’t get inventorship rights. 🧠 Why this matters to you: If you’re using AI in your invention process - especially advanced, domain-specific tools - be cautious. Understand who built the AI, what it was designed to do, and whether it might trigger inventorship claims. Otherwise, your patent could get tied up in disputes. 📖 Read the full article by Stewart Myers, registered U.S. patent agent and former IP attorney: 👉 ipwatchdog.com/2025/07/30/the-real-danger-of-ai-developers-becoming-unwanted-co-inventors/id=190772

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