The Ottoman Settlement [Old Version] 1916 Background
12-34-56-78 Chekhov v. State of Israel, P.D. 51 (2)6. On August 8, 2019, the appellant filed two patent applications in Israel, numbered 268604 and 268605 (The Patent Applications or Applications).
- Parallel patent applications were filed for registration by the appellant, Dr. Thaler, at patent offices around the world, as part of a project by researchers known as Artificial Inventor Project (AIP), as an initiative to formulate a policy regarding the granting of intellectual property rights to inventions created through artificial intelligence.
Patent applications in Israel claim precedent over applications filed in the UK, the European Union, and the United States.
- The substantive content of the patent applications is not required for our case. For the sake of good order, it should be noted that the title of 268604 application is "Devices and Methods for the Application of Increased Attention" and the title of 268604 application is "Food Container" (RESH/3 and RESH/4).
- The hearing at the Patent Office and the appeal were conducted jointly with respect to the two patent applications; This judgment will also not distinguish between them, and sometimes the singular will be used (application, invention, etc.). In any case, this should be read as true for both requests.
- In the patent applications, in the place designated for the name of the applicant (i.e., the name of the person who claims to be the owner of the invention), the name of the appellant is written.
Where it is possible (although there is no obligation) to register the name of the inventor, the patent applications state:
"DABUS - Invention was autonomously generated by an artificial intelligence"
In the place designated for indication by virtue of what the patent is requesting is "owner of an invention", it is written: "assignment".
The patent applications were accompanied by a document entitled "Statement on Inventorship" and its purpose, as noted at the outset, was to help clarify the situation regarding the invention, and to explain that it was invented by an AI machine called DABUS (DABUS or the machine) and should be referred to as an "inventor".