Japan's top court says an AI can't be a patent inventor. The thread says that's not the story (japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)
Japan joins the US Federal Circuit and courts worldwide: only a human can be a legal inventor. The plaintiff is Stephen Thaler, who has made a career of filing DABUS applications around the globe and has reportedly won exactly once, in South Africa, where patents are barely examined.
The thread's correction is that this decides far less than the headline implies. The ruling doesn't touch AI-assisted invention — a human can still patent work done with an AI's help. The court only refused to name the machine itself. As one commenter shrugged: the fix is to put your own name on it, which is exactly what the ruling permits.
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