- author = "Robert W. Stevenson and Joseph F. Murphy and Thomas J. Clare",
- title = "Robot Inventors: Patently Impossible?",
- journal = "Science",
- year = "2009",
- volume = "324",
- number = "5930",
- pages = "1014",
- month = "22 " # may,
- note = "Letters",
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming",
- ISSN = "0036-8075",
-
DOI = "
doi:10.1126/science.324_1014a",
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abstract = "As two patent attorneys and a technical adviser at a
long-established Philadelphia intellectual property law
firm, we read R. D. King et al.'s Report about robotic
inventors (``The automation of science,'' 3 April, p.
85 \cite{King:2009:Science} ) with interest. We wonder
whether the products invented by robots will ultimately
become free to the public without the possibility for
patent protection.
American patent law....
Europe may differ....
Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen, and Pokotilow, Ltd., 1635 Market Street, 11th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA.",
