95 users of the Patent and Trademark Office’s computer systems alert OIRA to new facts that arose earlier this week, on … throw out the information, and then recompute and reconstruct the information. Notably, analogous computer systems at all … computer error if the PTO single-mindedly considers only its own costs, and ignores burden on the public and the requirements …

primary source of new discoveries. In some cases, a computer’s output constitutes patentable subject matter, and the computer … already granted patents for inventions by computers, the issue of computer inventorship has never been explicitly considered … by the courts, Congress, or the Patent Office. Yet the issue of whether a computer can be an inventor is an eminently …