Is computer-automated inventing going to make patent law obsolete?
Not if we begin to reform patent law now. Although artificial invention technology is automating the physical design of products, we still need human inventors to create new artificial invention software and to instruct existing artificial invention software to solve today’s pressing technological problems. All of this requires significant technical skill, and as long as we need people with such skill to innovate, we will need patent law to encourage and protect the results of such innovation. The rules of patent law, however, need to be updated in light of invention automation, and The Genie in the Machine lays out a detailed roadmap for such legal reform.
