01/08/2019 (Agence Europe) – The IPPro Magazine website reported on Thursday 1 August that a professor at the University of Surrey (United Kingdom) has filed two patent applications created by artificial intelligence with the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) and the European Patent Office (EPO). This is a first, according to the magazine. The inventor’s name is DABUS. It is a system of artificial neural networks designed to generate new ideas. The two patent applications involve a new type of beverage container created using fractal geometry and a device to draw attention to assistance required in search and rescue operations. However, the magazine reports that these two applications raise a number of questions, such as how ownership rights can be assigned to a machine, and how we define inventors and authors. (PH)