In February, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued its inventorship guidance for artificial intelligence-assisted inventions. This guidance aims to address the distinctive challenges posed by AI in the realm of patent law, emphasizing the importance of enablement. According to Mark Basanta and Georg Reitboeck at Haug Partners, inventors must specifically tackle the ‘black-box problem’ to ensure their AI-driven inventions can be recreated by others, thereby meeting the enablement requirement. The concept of enablement is crucial for the issuance of patents, as it ensures that a person skilled in the art can reproduce the invention based on the information disclosed.