We did run into that issue with monkeys and copyright, and we ran into it again with AI and patents. The Copyright Office ruled one way on monkeys and copyrigh

We did run into that issue with monkeys and copyright, and we ran into it again with AI and patents. The Copyright Office ruled one way on monkeys and copyright, and an appeals court held that they were largely correct. The Patent and Trademarks Office ruled the other way on AI and patents. It - or any court making a decision on it - might be influenced by the monkeys and copyright case, but they're not bound by it. Monkeys are different things from computers, patents are different from copyright, and the laws for one need not be the same as the other.