Whose Intellectual Property is Prompt Engineering?
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Argues that individual prompts can be copyrightable prompts like code or scripts, while pure prompt engineering is usually not patentable but can be part of a patentable system (example: a chatbot combining unique hardware, software and UIs). Notes trade secrecy is possible, trademarks aren’t, and patentability requires must be novel non-obvious useful plus showing more than an abstract idea under the Alice 2014 ruling applied to software.
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