Blurring the Line Between the Dry and Wet Lab: Joint Inventorship in AI-Assisted Life Science Inventions

In 2024, not one but two Nobel Prizes (in Chemistry and Physics) were awarded to researchers for their work in artificial intelligence (“AI”). Particularly noteworthy for the life science community is the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded to David Baker for “the almost impossible feat of building entirely new kinds of proteins” and to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper for “develop[ing] an AI model to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting proteins’ complex structures.”…
By: Jones Day