[theflyestpilot]

Hmmm, I think of prompts more like recipes than an algorithm. Similar in both regards, but to the layman, I think prompts are becoming as common practice in daily lives as recipes.

Recipes can be trade secrets but not IP.(Unless it's a super rare circumstance that proves uniqueness in a 'Food Science' way).

I surely hope no one can patent a prompt. That would be an annoying world to live in.

[KellyCriterion]

Recipes can be somehow a brand: the name "Original Sacher Torte" is protected and can only be used by Hotel Sacher, but the recipe itself isn't

[AnimalMuppet]

But that's trademark rather than patent, isn't it? The rules are quite different for trademark.

[stop50]

its just an brand like you can register yourself one.

[alok-g]

AFAIK and IANAL.

Algorithms are considered mathematics and not patentable in themselves. So even if prompts are seen as algorithms, they would not be patentable. Prompts would have the usual copyright protections.

I presume though that some specific prompts may satisfy the criteria for patentability.