AI Inventions – Patenting in Practice

In a recent article, Kim Bayliss described a scheme for classifying AI inventions. In further articles (part I and II), Kim described how applications should be drafted to take account of the nature of the AI invention, in the light of the EPO practice. This article uses that scheme as the basis for looking in detail at how the patent application process at the European Patent Office (EPO) handles some AI inventions.

To summarize very briefly, the recent article said that AI inventions can be classified as “Applied AI”, “Core AI”, or “Hardware”, and made the point that patent applications for AI inventions in different categories will need to be drafted differently, and will be examined differently by the EPO.

Read the full article at the link below.