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US patent office confirms AI can’t hold patents::The US Patent and Trademark Office maintains that only natural humans can get patents, but people do have to disclose if they used AI for the invention.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click#Patent
One click purchasing is little more than a web page layout and it was patented. The patent was reexamined and partially upheld too.
Also, I just think, morally speaking, that just because you had an idea, the opportunity of having the same idea shouldn’t be denied to everyone else.
John Carmack said it well:
“The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.”
One click purchasing is a website element not a layout. If you read the patent there’s a bit more going on then just here’s a button that purchases items. The patent describes how the front end and backend works in order to make it work and that’s what separates it from being ‘just a layout’ and makes it patentable.