ND Japanese court rules that AI cannot be issued patents (japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)
53 points by anigbrowl 662 days ago | 39 comments on HN ~lite vlite-2.0
Summary ~lite
Japanese court rules AI cannot be issued patents, citing law recognizes only 'natural persons' as inventors.
Lite evaluation by llama-4-scout-wai-psq · editorial channel only · no per-section breakdown available
Longitudinal · 5 evals
+1 0 −1 HN
Audit Trail 10 entries
2026-03-05 13:31 eval_success PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.120 (3 dims) - -
2026-03-05 13:31 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai-psq: +0.12 (Mild positive)
2026-03-05 13:24 eval_success PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.194 (3 dims) - -
2026-03-05 13:24 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai-psq: +0.19 (Mild positive)
2026-03-01 10:57 eval_success Lite evaluated: Mild positive (0.20) - -
2026-03-01 10:57 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: +0.20 (Mild positive)
reasoning
Editorial stance on AI patent rights, neutral to slightly positive
2026-03-01 10:56 eval_success Lite evaluated: Neutral (0.00) - -
2026-03-01 10:56 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: 0.00 (Neutral) 0.00
reasoning
Neutral news reporting
2026-03-01 10:51 eval_success Lite evaluated: Neutral (0.00) - -
2026-03-01 10:51 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: 0.00 (Neutral)
reasoning
Neutral news reporting