Inventor Requirements -

| Requirement | Description | |-------------|-------------| | | You formed the idea in your mind, not just built what someone else described. | | Contribution to claims | Your contribution appears in the legal definition (claims) of what is protected. | | Not just a helper | Following instructions, supplying materials, or running routine tests is insufficient. | | No fraud or omission | You cannot willfully omit true inventors or include non-inventors. |

: Currently, most major patent offices (including the USPTO ) require inventors to be "natural persons" (humans). Artificial Intelligence cannot currently be named as a sole inventor in the U.S. or EU. inventor requirements