課程介紹

(Eng.) With the development of technology, intangible assets become more and more important to globe industry. Understanding the international treaty regarding intellectual property protection is thus necessary. This seminar will basically discuss the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly focusing on the legal issue between AI and IP. The topics will cover AI policy cross the nations and the issue of authorship and inventorship of AI generated work and invention.

 

(中) 在國際化趨勢下，無形智慧資產之保護儼然成為提昇產業全球性競爭力之關鍵所在。是以，有關於智慧財產權保護之國際公約及相關議題，實有必要深究瞭解。本學期的課程將圍繞於人工智慧議題，並以人工智慧與智慧財產權的爭議為主軸，探討各國對於人工智慧的政策、人工智慧的著作權人與發明人身分認定等爭議。
教科書:

1. Goldstein, International Intellectual Property Law (2d ed. 2008).

2. Graeme B. Dinwoodie & Rochelle C. Dreyfuss, A Neofederalist Vision of TRIPS: The Resilience of the International Intellectual Property Regime, Oxford University Press, 2012

3. C. Andrew Keisner, Julio Raffo & Sacha Wunsch-Vincent, Economic Research Working Paper No. 30: Breakthrough technologies-Robotics, innovation and intellectual property 4-5 (2015). Available at: https://reurl.cc/j7Z4L

4. Executive Office of the President National Science and Technology Council Committee on Technology, Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence, available at: https://goo.gl/xRmJ6K

5. European parliament, Report with recommendations to the Commission on Civil Law Rules on Robotics (2015/2103(INL)), Jan. 27, 2017, available at: https://reurl.cc/lVrbl

  1. Japan
  • 「次世代知財システム検討委員会報告書～デジタル・ネットワーク化に対応する次世代知財システム構築に向けて～」, available at: https://reurl.cc/R4Gon
  • 知的財産戦略本部，知的財産推進計画2017, available at: https://reurl.cc/yZNal

7. World Trade Organization網站(www.wto.org)。

8. World Intellectual Property Organization網站( www.wipo.int)。
教學進度:

9/8 Topic: Introduction

 

9/15 Topic: Academic Legal Writing; The Blue Book; Westlaw database【presentation drawing】

 

9/22 Topic: What is AI? What is AI Policy?

Calo, Ryan, Artificial Intelligence Policy: A Primer and Roadmap (August 8, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3015350

 

9/29 Topic: Who is the AI inventor or creator?

 

  • The monkey selfie case 【Sign up for Mandatory Individual Meeting】
    • The U.S. District Court decision: Naruto v. Slater, 2016 WL 362231, Jan 28, 2016
    • The U.S. CAFC decision: Naruto v. Slater, 888 F.3d 418 (9th Cir., Apr 23, 2018)

 

 

10/6~27 【mandatory individual meeting】【working on your draft】

 

11/3~11/17

Topic: AI policy cross the nations

 

  • EU’s AI Policy
    • European Commission, White paper on artificial intelligence, 19 Feb. 2020, available at: https://reurl.cc/n057g2
    • European parliament, EU guidelines on ethics in artificial intelligence: Context and implementation, Sep. 2019, available at: https://reurl.cc/R1bvp6
    • European parliament, Report with recommendations to the Commission on Civil Law Rules on Robotics (2015/2103(INL)), Jan. 27, 2017, available at: https://reurl.cc/lVrbl

 

  • The U.S. white house AI policy
    • Executive Office of the President National Science and Technology Council Committee on Technology, Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence, available at: https://goo.gl/xRmJ6K
  • Japan’s AI Policy
    • 「次世代知財システム検討委員会報告書～デジタル・ネットワーク化に対応する次世代知財システム構築に向けて～」, available at: https://reurl.cc/R4Gon
    • 知的財産戦略本部，知的財産推進計画2017, available at: https://reurl.cc/yZNal

11/24, 12/1 & 12/8 Topic: AI and copyright

  • Ana Ramalho, Will Robots Rule the (Artistic) World?: A Proposed Model for the Legal Status of Creations by Artificial Intelligence Systems, 21 No. 1 J. Internet L. 1 (2017).
  • Amir H. Khoury, Intellectual Property Rights for “Hubots”: On the Legal Implications of Human-Like Robots as Innovators and Creators, 35 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 635 (2017).
  • Robert C. Denicola, Ex Machina: Copyright Protection for Computer-Generated Works, 69 Rutgers U. L. Rev. 251 (2016).
  • Annemarie Bridy, The Evolution of Authorship: Work Made By Code, 39 Colum. J.L. & Arts 395 (2016).
  • James Grimmelmann, Copyright for Literate Robots, 101 Iowa L. Rev. 657 (2016).

 

 

12/15~12/29 Topic: AI and patent

  • Mizuki Hashiguchi, Artificial Intelligence and The Jurisprudence of Patent Eligibility in the United States, Europe, and Japan, 29 No. 12 Intell. Prop. & Tech. L.J. 3 (2017).
  • Yanisky-Ravid, Shlomit and Liu, Xiaoqiong (Jackie), When Artificial Intelligence Systems Produce Inventions: The 3A Era and an Alternative Model for Patent Law (March 1, 2017). Cardozo Law Review, Forthcoming. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2931828 
  • Ryan Abbott, I Think, Therefore I Invent: Creative Computers and the Future of Patent Law, 57 B.C. L. Rev. 1079 (2016).
  • Peter M. Kohlhepp, When the Invention is an Inventor: Revitalizing Patentable Subject Matter to Exclude Unpredictable Processes, 93 Minn. L. Rev. 779 (2008).
  • Liza Vertinskya, Todd M. Rice, Thinking about Thinking Machines: Implications of Machine Inventors for Patent Law, 8 B.U. J. Sci. & Tech. L. 574 (2002).
  • Ryan Benjamin Abbott,　The Artificial Inventor Project, WIPO Magazine, available at: https://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2019/06/article_0002.html
  • Ryan Benjamin Abbott, The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law (Excerpt) (2020). Cambridge University Press, 2020, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3611370

 

110/1/5 【Final Paper Due by 18:00】【110/1/5 at 6 P.M.，hand in your final paper in my mailbox in room 734 （also send me the file of your paper to lawchen@email.nchu.edu.tw）】
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