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Deploying AI at the Patent Office
According to IP Watchdog, there is a problem in the Patent Office with backlogs and the granting of bad patents, which could be solved by deploying artificial intelligence.
Frakes and Wasserman cite sources saying that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is granting too many bad patents which “unnecessarily drain consumer welfare, stunt productive research, and unreasonably extract rents from innovators.” They trace the problem to a lack of sufficient review time available to the examiner:
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