From Filing to Opposition: What are the Statistics on Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Patents & Applications at the EPO

The term “artificial intelligence” is sometimes used in European patent applications and patents without further explanation or elaboration, AI apparently being taken to be no more than a known, off-the-shelf option. Such applications and patents are very unlikely to be concerned with developments in AI.

The International Patent Classification (IPC) helps us here, with an extensive dictionary in which “catchwords” are linked to IPC classifications. Although catchwords are often linked to multiple classifications, the catchword “Artificial Intelligence” is linked to only one classification:- G06N. That classification at least covers machine learning and neural networks, technologies at the core of developments related to artificial intelligence. The details of the technologies covered by G06N are given further below. Applications and patents given the classification G06N provide a useful indication of trends in European applications and patents concerned with AI and uses of AI.

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