{"id":3677,"date":"2026-06-15T08:42:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T23:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sakae-pat.jp\/?p=3677"},"modified":"2026-06-15T08:42:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T23:42:35","slug":"%ef%bd%81%ef%bd%89%e6%99%82%e4%bb%a3%e3%81%ae%e7%89%b9%e8%a8%b1%e5%88%b6%e5%ba%a6%e3%83%bc%ef%bd%85po%e9%95%b7%e5%ae%98%e7%99%ba%e8%a8%80%e3%82%92%e3%81%a9%e3%81%86%e8%aa%ad%e3%82%80%e3%81%8b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sakae-pat.jp\/en\/en-patents\/%ef%bd%81%ef%bd%89%e6%99%82%e4%bb%a3%e3%81%ae%e7%89%b9%e8%a8%b1%e5%88%b6%e5%ba%a6%e3%83%bc%ef%bd%85po%e9%95%b7%e5%ae%98%e7%99%ba%e8%a8%80%e3%82%92%e3%81%a9%e3%81%86%e8%aa%ad%e3%82%80%e3%81%8b\/","title":{"rendered":"Patent Systems in the AI Era: Interpreting the EPO President&#8217;s Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An article reporting that Antonio Campinos, President of the European Patent Office (EPO), stated that the increasing number of AI-related inventions is \u201cposing new challenges\u201d to the patent system was also covered by major Japanese media outlets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the reports did not clearly distinguish between two fundamentally different issues: the growing number of AI-related inventions and the question of inventions autonomously generated by AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former concerns inventions that incorporate AI technology or inventions relating to AI technology itself. The latter concerns a much more fundamental issue\u2014how patent systems should deal with inventions created autonomously by AI in light of the long-established principle that an inventor must be a human being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my view, President Campinos was referring primarily to this latter issue, which goes to the very foundation of the patent system, rather than merely to the increase in AI-related inventions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Countries that continue to avoid addressing this issue through legislative or policy measures risk falling behind in the global innovation landscape. While I have my own views on possible legal solutions, I will refrain from discussing them here at this stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article reporting that Antonio Campinos, President of the European Patent Office (EPO), stated that the increasing number of AI-related inventions is \u201cposing new challenges\u201d to the patent system was also covered by major Japanese&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/www.sakae-pat.jp\/?p=3674","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en-patents","category-en-presidents-essay","en-US"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sakae-pat.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sakae-pat.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sakae-pat.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sakae-pat.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sakae-pat.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sakae-pat.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3678,"href":"https:\/\/www.sakae-pat.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677\/revisions\/3678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sakae-pat.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sakae-pat.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sakae-pat.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}