Unlocking Artificial Intelligence's Legal Code: Navigating Patent Law In The Era Of AI

INTRODUCTION

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has existed since the 20^th century.¹ However, generative AI, a relatively new advancement, has become the most prevalent concept in the field. Generative AI is a form of artificial intelligence algorithm that can be used to create new content, including audio, code, images, text, simulations, and videos.² Generative AI models learn the patterns and structure of their input training data and then generate new data that has similar characteristics.³ The use of generative AI models such as Chat GPT, Bing, Bard, Copilot and MidJourney have raised several concerns from both legal and ethical points of view. More recently, concerns have been raised specifically around intellectual property (IP) rights and the potential infringements that may arise in the use generative AI.