[ 1 ] Hao K. Google is using AI to design chips that will accelerate AI [Internet]. Cambridge: MIT Technology Review; 2020 Mar 27 [cited 2020 Aug 12]. Available from: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/03/27/950258/ google-ai-chip-design-reinforcement-learning/. link1

[ 2 ] Pownall A. First patent applications filed for designs created by AI [Internet]. London: Dezeen; 2019 Aug 1 [cited 2020 Aug 12]. Available from: https:// www.dezeen.com/2019/08/01/patent-ai-machine-products-technology/. link1

[ 3 ] Service RF. AIs direct search for materials breakthroughs. Science 2019;366 (6471):1295–6.

[ 4 ] Revised issues paper on intellectual property policy and artificial intelligence [Internet]. Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization; 2020 May 29 [cited 2020 Aug 12]. Available from: https://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_ details.jsp?doc_id=499504. link1

[ 5 ] Abbott R. The Artificial Inventor Project [Internet]. Artificial Inventor Project; c2019–2020 [cited 2020 Aug 12]. Available from: https:// artificialinventor.com/. link1

[ 6 ] Thaler SL, inventor; Abbott R, assignee. Food container and devices and methods for attracting enhanced attention. WIPO patent WO2020079499. 2020 Apr 23.

[ 7 ] Bahr RW. Decision on petition, application no. 16/524,350. Alexandria: United States Patent and Trademark Office; 2019 Jul 29.

[ 8 ] Porter J. US patent office rules that artificial intelligence cannot be a legal inventor [Internet]. New York: The Verge; 2020 Apr 29 [cited 2020 Aug 12]. Available from: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/29/21241251/artificialintelligence-inventor-united-states-patent-trademark-office-intellectualproperty. link1

[ 9 ] Grounds for the decision, application no. 18 275 163.6. Munich: European Patent Office; 2020 Jan 27.

[10] Jones H. Patent decision, O/741/19. Newport: Intellectual Property Office; 2019 Dec 4.

[11] Feathers T. This guy is suing the patent office for deciding an AI can’t invent things [Internet]. New York: Vice; 2020 Aug 24 [cited 2020 Aug 25]. Available from: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dz44b/this-guy-is-suing-thepatent-office-for-deciding-ai-cant-invent-things. link1

[12] Abbott R. The reasonable robot: artificial intelligence and the law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2020. link1

[13] IEI’s patented Creativity Machine Paradigm [Internet]. St. Charles: Imagination Engines, Inc.; c1997–2020 [cited 2020 Aug 19]. Available from: http://imagination-engines.com/iei_cm.php. link1