The US Patent and Trademark Office is investing in research, development and deployment of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies to discover new process improvements. They deployed new AI tools that USPTO’s examiners can use to improve the quality of patent and trademark application examinations.

Figure 1: New AI tool in patent and trademark department by USPTO.

Figure 1 shows that USPTO is currently looking to bolster its infrastructure to enable innovation. Vidal noted that the agency creates new rules that minimize barriers and mitigate pitfalls that may impede faster development and deployment of AI and other emerging technologies.

“We want to incentivize innovation, especially in key areas like AI and emerging technologies.” “What we are focused on is bringing innovation to impact,” Kathi Vidal, USPTO. [1]

USPTO formally launched an AI system to conduct extensive searches for prior art, resulting in higher quality patents that form the basis of new products, new companies and new industries. For trademarks, USPTO is developing an AI search and comparison tool for examining attorneys, and for customers, the agency created an AI-based virtual assistant deployed on its website to help locate otherwise modified information quickly and easily.

USPTO built a machine learning system that sorts through patent documents, texts, citations, CPC symbols and other information to better identify certain technologies. The agency developed a system to identify AI contained in USPTO patent documents. From this system, USPTO released the AI patent dataset in June 2021. [2]

“That data set is publicly available … that’s kind of the backbone of our effort here,” explained Nicholas Pairolero, a USPTO economist. “Then, we released the ‘Inventing AI’ report that traced the massive diffusion of AI across companies across US geography.”

The agency’s 2020 “Inventing AI” report noted that from 2002 to 2018, annual AI patent applications increased by more than 100%, rising from 30,000 to more than 60,000 annually, Mary Critharis, USPTO’s chief policy officer and director of International Affairs explained. Over the same period, the share of all patent applications that contain AI grew from 9% to nearly 16%.

“What we’ve been observing is that there is an increasing importance of AI in invention and innovation in all areas,” Vidal said. geography.” [3]

References:

1. https://agadir-group.com/uspto-outlines-future-plans-for-ai-innovation/
2. https://governmentciomedia.com/uspto-outlines-future-plans-ai-innovation
3. https://jinicms.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/uspto-outlines-future-plans-for-ai-innovation/

Cite this article:

Sri Vasagi K (2022), New AI Tool in Patent and Trademark Application, AnaTechMaz, pp.125