News-July-30-2026
July 30, 2026 — The Delhi High Court asked the Indian Patent Office to respond to Stephen Thaler’s appeal over whether his DABUS artificial-intelligence system can be named as an inventor under Indian patent law.[1]
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- Delhi High Court takes up DABUS AI-inventor appeal
Delhi High Court takes up DABUS AI-inventor appeal
Justice Jyoti Singh issued notice to the Indian Patent Office on July 30 in Stephen Thaler’s appeal from the refusal of a patent application that named DABUS—Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience—as the inventor.[1] The application concerns a food or beverage container with a fractal-profile wall designed to let containers connect and later separate.[1]
The Assistant Controller’s April 15 refusal found that the remaining claims lacked an inventive step, that DABUS could not be recognized as the “true and first inventor,” and that Thaler had not satisfied inventorship-declaration and proof-of-right requirements.[1] Thaler argues that India’s Patents Act does not expressly require an inventor to be a natural person and says he seeks accurate identification of the source of the inventive concept, not legal personality or patent rights for DABUS; under his theory, any patent rights would vest in him as applicant and owner of the system.[1]
The court listed the appeal for its next hearing on September 18.[1]