Advise on AI-assisted inventorship and copyrightability
Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- Collect the human contributions and the AI steps the client describes into a chronology for the lawyer.
- What the lawyer must review
- Apply the inventorship guidance (28 November 2025), which rescinds the 2024 notice
- Confirm only natural persons are named as inventors; never name an AI
- Open Copyright Office Part 2 (29 January 2025) for output copyrightability
- Written for / version
- United States versionUS
Rules that apply
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Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | Potential support includes summarising source material. Confirm the tool’s capability and permitted scope. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- Confirm the output against the client’s instructions and the complete relevant source material, including omissions or contradictions.
- Resolve exceptions and record the responsible lawyer’s approval of the exact output and intended use.