Mealey's ( April 17, 2023, 12:55 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Filing an amicus curiae brief in support of a petitioner who sought registration of two patents he attributed to his artificial intelligence (AI) system, a group of four professors ask the U.S. Supreme Court to grant the petition for certiorari and “recognize that AI systems have been producing inventions constituting patentable subject matter for decades,” asserting that the practice of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) to deny patent registration to AI systems is “unwarranted” under the Patent Act....