Evaluation of the Need for Developing Separate Patentable Laws for Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

As the world continue evolving and the necessity to rely on technologies is growing, the experts have been able to identify the ever-rising significance of AI in the sector of IP. It is not surprising that the current technologies encounter IP in several ways. As such, AI overlaps IP in different ways. The aim of the research is to evaluate the need for developing separate patentable laws for artificial intelligence. This research used secondary research methodology which focused on other researchers’ experiment and using their findings as the base for the project. The findings indicate that whereas there are no UK regulations that were directly noted down to regulate AI, it is partly regulated via collaged of regulatory and legal requirements built for other functions or roles which currently capture the usage of AI technologies. In patent law, ownership is established at the invention point, that is, the origin of the idea that forms the base of patent application field. The inventors are by necessity human beings because AI is considered not to be viable inventor within the meaning of the United Kingdom Patents Act. One of the major barriers to patenting ML as well as other AI systems, is that in many nations including the United Kingdom, abstract mathematical methodologies aren’t patentable.