Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability: Investigating AI Inventorship from Saudi Patent Law

Abstract The prosperity of artificial intelligence (‘ AI ’) is influencing industrial aspects in a several sectors in a pressing collaboration from both developed and developing countries. This issue stands in the heart of the Saudi vision 2030. Researchers have captured the potential influence of AI performing perception, visual, textual, and tactile decision-making. At this stage, AI represents an appealing platform that may produce novel products capable to receive legal protection such as patent, which questions eligibility of AI to receive legal recognition as ‘inventors’ autonomously. Yet, until now, both the USPTO , and the U.S. Appeal Court did not recognize under DABUS . However, most recently an application is submitted to the Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property, and still pending for investigating inventorship for AI , which raises the questioning whether the Saudi law can recognize for the first time. This research investigates DABUS claimed inventorship from the U.S. and KSA patent laws, founding that such recognition cannot be granted because of no-existence of legal personhood for AI , otherwise requires dramatic changes to raise AI liabilities.