AI-based technologies will play a significant role in patent
practice and, particularly, in managing the growing demand for
patents to protect increasingly complex inventions. We are already
seeing some emerging new tools that support patent prosecution,
searching, portfolio management and enforcement. These and other
initiatives now being developed will soon become commonplace. Let
us discover the role that AI technologies can play in patents and
how they can support and enhance the work of patent
professionals.
In the recent IP Trend Monitor Survey
conducted by the Dennemeyer Group and CTC Legal Media, two-thirds
of respondents, and 69 percent of patent specialists, put AI ahead
of all other issues in terms of its likely impact on IP work in the
next five years. Tasks such as IP portfolio management, patent
searching and annuity payments, in particular, were identified as
likely to be affected by AI, machine learning and automation tools.
A significant majority
