This one feels important – a US federal circuit court has confirmed that AI systems cannot patent inventions because they are not human beings. The ruling confirms the US AI patent law’s status quo and shores up what is slowly consolidating as an international legal opinion. The EU’s patent office and the Australian High Court have made similar rulings in recent years.
And also, in the news from the government, NIST has published a draft update to its healthcare cybersecurity guide, Special Publication 800-66r1. Quoting from Mondaq:
The document’s main body contains significantly expanded risk assessment and management guidance. The appendices have been largely reworked and feature extensive resources to aid in performing risk assessments, especially about threat modeling.
Perhaps the most useful new feature in the revised draft is Appendix F – HIPAA Security Rule Resources (Informative), containing more than ten pages of categorized and summarized links to other resources in 17 different categories. The revamped Appendix F essentially offers a guided tour of an extensive library of healthcare cybersecurity resources.
And in the news we’ve been tracking, the EU is opening an office in Silicon Valley to help tech firms understand how the new rules apply to them.
Why do we care?
Oh, Europe… what good diplomacy to come over and help tech obey the law. The Europeans are on their game.
Tactically, NIST’s releases are of note for healthcare IT specifically and likely broadly for any IT services company. Get downloading.
The US court ruling continues the trend – at least we can’t auto-generate patents. A bit of sanity in my mind.
