Can Dabus Now have a German Passport?

Abstract

The case commentary looks at the latest ruling in the DABUS-saga, this time from the German Federal Court in Karlsruhe. Since 2017 Dr Stephen Thaler and his attorney Professor Ryan Abbott have tried to prove that patent protection should be available for innovation invented by AI. Together they have filed a long series of world-wide high-profile legal actions, including the UK, US, New Zealand, Australia, Saudi Arabia and South Africa. All with the same aim to have Thaler’s DABUS device listed as the inventor with its own patent. This article follows on from an earlier piece EIPR (2024), with an update from the German Federal Court (Bundesgerichtshof 11 June 2024). DABUS operator and inventor, Dr Stephen L. Thaler, has been trying for years to have AI registered as an inventor worldwide - and has so far failed in almost all cases worldwide except Saudi Arabia and South Africa