Making ready for Automated Examination | Patently-O

Associates across the nation in the present day are drafting motions, patent functions, and different paperwork utilizing some model of ChatGPT.   In fact, If I had been a choose or examiner, I may also be occupied with utilizing AI to assist facilitate my decision-making.  ChatGPT is sweet for that as nicely and may present a reasoned construction, together with figuring out of prior artwork and obviousness requirements.

If you happen to recall your final writing course, the professor repeatedly centered consideration on the viewers. “Who’s the viewers you want to persuade?”  Transferring ahead, it seems that we actually do have a brand new viewers for our writing — AI advisors.  This calls to thoughts the good tape recorder scene from Actual Genius (1985). Members of the category started simply leaving tape-recorders to file the  boring lecture; finally, the professor additionally simply introduced in his personal taped lecture to talk to the machines.

Automated Examination: On the patent prosecution aspect, we could shortly be in a state of affairs the place AI programs will be capable of conduct patent examination on the identical stage of high quality as a typical human examiner.  It appears apparent that we should always depend upon the AI to a minimum of facilitate examination.  The larger query is whether or not to get rid of the first-level human forms all collectively and transfer to an automatic examination system.  The good thing about that course of is that it could possibly be achieved very quickly (speedy allowance / rejection) and doubtlessly at a a lot decrease price.  Actually, PCT programs might transfer towards considerably decreasing prices with preliminary search experiences and examination being achieved mechanically.

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