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AI, Inventorship, and Why Human Creativity Still Rules

AI, Inventorship, and Why Human Creativity Still Rules

Update: 2025-12-06
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Today, we’re diving into a significant development in intellectual property law that’s making waves across the intellectual property sector. On November 28, 2025, the USPTO published new guidance on inventorship for AI-assisted inventions, and it’s a big shift from what we saw in early 2024. The main headline is simple but powerful: there will be no separate inventorship standard for AI-assisted inventions. The same legal standard that applies to traditional inventions applies here. And consistent with long-standing case law, only natural persons, that is to say human beings, can be listed as inventors. 

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AI, Inventorship, and Why Human Creativity Still Rules

AI, Inventorship, and Why Human Creativity Still Rules

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