Artificial intelligence is revolutionising how we create and invent things - yet the intellectual property (IP) legal framework grants rights only in the output of humans, not machines. In this Dispatch series, direct from Brussels, we talk to experts from creative industries, academia, law and policy about whether this matters - and whether it might be time for an update to IP law.

In this second episode, we talk about AI & patents with our guest Ryan Abbot, Professor of Law and Health Sciences at the University of Surrey and author of a book ’The Reasonable Robot - Artificial Intelligence and the Law’. Last year he filed a series of patent applications across the world that named an AI system called Dabus as the inventor. Tune in to find out more.