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Is patent law fit for an (emotional) AI age? CIIs, Training ANNs and other stories
Service: Patents
Sectors: AI and data science
A recording of the recent UCL Institute of Brand and Innovation Law’s innovation seminar is now available online.
Is patent law fit for an (emotional) AI age? That’s the question Patent Attorney Virginia Driver and the panel recently discussed at the UCL Institute of Brand and Innovation Law’s annual innovation seminar.
Alongside Matt Hervey, Michael Prior, Noam Shemtov and chair Carter Eltzroth, Virginia discussed whether the ‘modern’ UK patent law established in the first industrial revolution of the 18th century remains suitable in today’s AI-driven world, dubbed ‘4IR’ or ‘Industry 4.0’.
The panel used the issues identified by Lord Justice Richard Arnold as a springboard for discussion:
- What activities does patent law need to incentivise, and where should the balance be struck if aiming to motivate technical innovation by applicants and to encourage public disclosure of inventions (to stimulate innovation by others)?
- How does the requirement of public disclosure work if an invention is made by machine learning (perhaps using non-public data), and how important is it?
- If we try to fit AI-generated inventions into the existing system, how will patent requirements, such as inventive step and sufficiency be applied?
A recording of the event and the panellists’ slides can now be accessed online.
