China Dominates Generative AI Patent Filings, UN Says (apnews.com) 12
China has requested significantly more generative AI patents than any other country, the U.N. intellectual property agency (the World Intellectual Property Organization) is reporting. According to WIPO's first-ever report on GenAI patents, China submitted over 38,200 inventions in the past decade, dwarfing the United States' 6,300 filings. South Korea, Japan, and India rounded out the top five. The study tracked approximately 54,000 GenAI-related patent applications from 2014 to 2023, with over a quarter emerging in the last year alone.
Does this mean .. (Score:3)
It's pretty easy to do, even with a shell script. Just append "using the Internet" to existing, expired patents.
Re: (Score:2)
Patent filing locations (Score:3)
One key and obvious question is where these patents were filed. From the original report [wipo.int], most of the Gen AI patent filings were in China, which saw around 40k filings, followed by the US with 11k and a big drop-off after that.
We need a Generative AI (Score:3)
Dedicated to debunking and filing claims against AI patents. That should really fuck things up. And what happens if an AI, working in a vacuum, derives the same methods and codes of an existing patent? If I file a patent of your specific DNA, and then later you were born, do I get to insist that they terminate you? Of course you know where this is going. There will be a movement to declare AI artificial life, and that anything it generates is its own intellectual property and not subject to patents because that would inhibit the natural evolutionary development of a life-form. note to self: use this in a short story.
Re: (Score:3)
We need a Generative AI / Dedicated to debunking and filing claims against AI patents.
It's interesting. The term "obvious" in patents is pretty hard to define and is very non obvious to tech people and also lawyers. What it's supposed to mean is that someone "skilled in the art" could come up with the idea almost automatically. Up until now, though, it's been pretty difficult to know whether the reason that a person couldn't come up with a patentable idea was that they were actually unfamiliar with or had forgotten some key piece of knowledge or whether that was because the idea was actually
Re: (Score:2)
The reason science is hard is because it can't allow little hallucination gaps in the logic. The reason people think AI is smart is because they like to allow little hallucination gaps in the logic.
Re: (Score:2)
The reason science is hard is because it can't allow little hallucination gaps in the logic.
Yeah, but patents (and I know this from experience) don't work like that either. Gaps in the logic are fine as long as an expert using the patent, later on when the field has already advanced enough to produce whatever you patented, can make whatever you described. That's something which might never happen if your invention is impossible. That used to be ruled out by insisting that inventors deliver their device to the patent office but that hasn't been true for quite a long time (except in the case of perp
Most AI Patents are Generic (Score:3)
How does it compare per capita? (Score:1)
obviously AI is driven by designers, so it would make sense the worlds most populous nation would generate more IF they have more people working in the industry.
How can China play both sides? (Score:3)
Re: How can China play both sides? (Score:3)
Re: (Score:2)
" China files patents like crazy while also ignoring everyone else's patents. Why should anyone be expected to honor a Chinese patent in this situation? "
^^^ Exactly This ^^^
China is literally THE poster child for IP theft on this planet.
They steal every idea, patent, design, research and corporate secrets they can get their hands on yet they want everyone ELSE to recognize Chinese IP ?
ROFL
Good luck with that.