Business and intellectual property officials in the US have called for patent laws to be rewritten to recognize modern AI technologies. Writes about it The Register.
The US Chamber of Commerce held a series of hearings where experts from academia, industry, and government raised issues hindering the development of modern AI models. Among them are the patentability of algorithms and the need to grant systems copyright to machine-made inventions.
According to the participants in the hearings, the existing legislation on intellectual property has not changed much since its adoption in 1793. Despite the wide category of patentable inventions, registration of machine learning models is still difficult, experts say.
As an example, they cited difficulties with reproducibility and limited access to training data. Because of this, patent registrars may reject applications if they find the text to be confusing or uninterpretable.
Experts insist on the need to amend the law so that machine learning systems can be recognized as new inventions.
“Patent code, which [наши основатели] implemented was fantastic, but they did not expect DNA processing, artificial intelligence, cryptography, programming and all modern technologies, ”said Andrei Iancu, former director of the United States Copyright Office (USPTO).
According to him, the modernization of patent law is necessary to commercialize algorithms and accelerate innovation.
“It is absolutely necessary and it is a matter of immediate national security,” Iancu said.
The panelists also noted China’s leadership in the number of patent applications for artificial intelligence systems in 2019 and 2020.
Most experts agreed that intellectual property rights to AI models should be registered. However, the question of whether authorship or ownership should be granted to technology-producing machines remains debatable.
Recall that in February, the USPTO rejected an application to register the intellectual property of an art object created by a machine learning algorithm.
In June, the inventor demanded through the court to patent the painting generated by the AI model.
That same month, Australian researchers called on the global community to legislate copyright for algorithms.
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Business and intellectual property officials in the US have called for patent laws to be rewritten to recognize modern AI technologies. Writes about it The Register.
The US Chamber of Commerce held a series of hearings where experts from academia, industry, and government raised issues hindering the development of modern AI models. Among them are the patentability of algorithms and the need to grant systems copyright to machine-made inventions.
According to the participants in the hearings, the existing legislation on intellectual property has not changed much since its adoption in 1793. Despite the wide category of patentable inventions, registration of machine learning models is still difficult, experts say.
As an example, they cited difficulties with reproducibility and limited access to training data. Because of this, patent registrars may reject applications if they find the text to be confusing or uninterpretable.
Experts insist on the need to amend the law so that machine learning systems can be recognized as new inventions.
“Patent code, which [наши основатели] implemented was fantastic, but they did not expect DNA processing, artificial intelligence, cryptography, programming and all modern technologies, ”said Andrei Iancu, former director of the United States Copyright Office (USPTO).
According to him, the modernization of patent law is necessary to commercialize algorithms and accelerate innovation.
“It is absolutely necessary and it is a matter of immediate national security,” Iancu said.
The panelists also noted China’s leadership in the number of patent applications for artificial intelligence systems in 2019 and 2020.
Most experts agreed that intellectual property rights to AI models should be registered. However, the question of whether authorship or ownership should be granted to technology-producing machines remains debatable.
Recall that in February, the USPTO rejected an application to register the intellectual property of an art object created by a machine learning algorithm.
In June, the inventor demanded through the court to patent the painting generated by the AI model.
That same month, Australian researchers called on the global community to legislate copyright for algorithms.
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