A different perspective on AI inventors and Germany’s DABUS decision “paradox”

The recent German Federal Court of Justice decision may present a paradox in the artificial inventor (‘AI’) patent test cases: refusing Stephen Thaler’s request to name his AI system, DABUS, as inventor of an invention – and allowing Thaler to name himself as inventor instead, despite DABUS purportedly doing the inventing. This article aims to dispel the apparent paradox by considering other appellate DABUS decisions in the United Kingdom and Australia, and the broader aims of the patent system.