Patent law and the superintelligence of transhumanism

Patent law and the superintelligence of transhumanism

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The aim of transhumanism is the fusion of man and machine to create a superintelligence as a next stage of evolution. Such a superintelligence will make it necessary to set the patentability criterion of inventive step very high. As the degree of difficulty of technical problems will remain constant, the vast majority of technical solutions will be considered in the future obvious and not patentable. At some point no invention will be patentable at all, because the level of inventiveness required by patent law must be constantly raised as the computing power of the superintelligence increases. Further, the fusion of humans and artificial intelligence constitutes a new identity, whereby the humans have given up their previous identity as natural persons. The inventor principle, according to which patent law only accepts inventions by natural persons, will be violated. Inventions of the transhumanist fusion of humans and artificial intelligence will be therefore generally not patentable.

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European Intellectual Property Review, 0142-0461 ; E.I.P.R. 2025, 47(6), 301-304

[New York, NY] : Thomson Reuters, 2025.

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