Can an Artificial Intelligence (AI) System be listed as the Inventor on a Patent Application?

By imitating human thinking, cognition, learning and computing, artificial intelligence (AI) can accomplish specific tasks, including the completion of certain research with development results. Whether an AI system can be considered an inventor on a Taiwan patent has been widely discussed in the legal profession in recent years. On this issue, the Supreme Administrative Court says "No" in its 2022 Shang Zi No. 55 decision. In said case, the applicant listed an AI as an inventor on the patent application. In turn, after informing the applicant in writing that the patent application was incomplete since a human inventor was not listed, and requesting the applicant to provide a human inventor, the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) rendered an administrative disposition to dismiss the patent application because the applicant still failed to provide a human inventor within the specified time period.