Myung-Ji Kang erwarb den Bachelor of Law an der Hankuk University of Foreign Studies und absolvierte anschließend an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen unter der Betreuung von Prof. Dr. Andreas Wiebe, LL.M. (Virginia) ihren Master und ihre Promotion in Rechtswissenschaft. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen im IT-, Immaterialgüter-, Datenschutz- und KI-Recht, insbesondere im Zusammenspiel von technologischer Innovation, geistigem Eigentum, Privatsphäre und Regulierung autonomer Systeme.

1. Introduction
Background - Previous Literature - Gaps in Existing Literature and Contribution of This Study - Overview of the Structure - Scope of the Research

2. Understanding AI in the Patent Field
Three Key Components Defining AI and the Significance of Understanding Software - Understanding AI Software - Today's Mass Production of AI Inventions - Comparison between AI Software and Human Brain

3. Comparative Studies of the Requirements for Inventorship Under Patent Law in Germany and the US
Introduction - Three Preliminary Remarks - The Invention Process - The Application Process - The Official Position of the Patent Office and Courts in both Germany and the US on AI Inventorship - Final Remarks and Critical Reflection

4. The 2/7 Questions and Possible AI-related Candidates for Inventors when AI is Excluded
Introduction - The 2/7 Questions: The Requirements for Inventorship - Possibility of Each Candidate's Inventorship - Possibility of Joint Inventorship of all Possible Candidates

5. Empty Column to 'Inventor's Name'
Introduction - No Room for Unnamed Inventors in Existing Legal Frameworks - Three Models of Inventor Attribution - Why the Inventor Field Must Not Be Empty: Legal, Procedural, and Ethical Implications

6. Affirmation of AI Inventorship
Opposing AI as Inventor: Arguments and Counterarguments - The Four-Perspective Analysis in Support of AI Inventorship

7. E-Person as Inventor
The Current Legal Situation: The Inventor as a Formal Expression and the Inventor as a Substantive Truth - Establishment of E-Persons - E-Persons in Patent Law: Conceptualizing the Legal Subject of the Inventive Process