Artificial Intelligence Technology Challenges Patent Laws

The artificial intelligence revolution has brought unprecedented challenges to today's ethical standards, legal rules, social order and public management systems. In terms of Patent law, the main challenge is the patent eligibility of the artificial intelligence invention. Computer technology is the most important technology in the field of artificial intelligence. However, since the 2014 Alice case, the US courts and USPTO have tended to deemed computer-related inventions that directed to abstract ideas that cannot meet the requirement of patent eligibility. In order to increase the possibility of patent entitled of artificial intelligence related inventions, patent applicants should should focus their construction of the claims to manifest what technical problems the invention are solving or identify the specific improvements that the claims are making.

Published in: 2019 International Conference on Intelligent Transportation, Big Data & Smart City (ICITBS)

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