Navigating Innovation: Legal Challenges at the Crossroads of AI and Patent Law


Authors : Abina Grace Varghese; Ajaya John Mathew

Volume/Issue : Volume 10 - 2025, Issue 4 - April

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.38124/ijisrt/25apr995

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Abstract : New artificial intelligence technologies under rapid development change many sectors of industry, impacts patents and other intellectual property, and thus poses legal concerns with strategic economic consequences besides interfering with patent law and artificial intelligence. Concerns about the patentability of ideas produced by AI systems and the regulation of those processes that legal systems ultimately end up sifting arise since AI systems are still becoming involved in the innovation process. This paper addresses fundamental issues: patents generated by AI systems have the right for application to be patentable, the prerequisites for obtaining patents, and how AI might enhance the patent application process. Moreover, the paper identifies the case of DABUS, which is wildly divergent in its approach to AI-generated inventions. Furthermore, institutions that have started thinking about formulations are the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the European Patent Office (EPO), which offer formations that consider the involvement of AI in invention. However, there are debates, including whether AI can be recognized as an inventor so businesses can protect their inventions effectively. For organizations that use AI for product development, there are choices on the kind of patent rights to grant and what AI methodologies permit in case they pose a competitive disadvantage.

Keywords : Artificial Intelligence, Development, Intellectual Property, Patents, Patenable, Rights, Technologies.

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New artificial intelligence technologies under rapid development change many sectors of industry, impacts patents and other intellectual property, and thus poses legal concerns with strategic economic consequences besides interfering with patent law and artificial intelligence. Concerns about the patentability of ideas produced by AI systems and the regulation of those processes that legal systems ultimately end up sifting arise since AI systems are still becoming involved in the innovation process. This paper addresses fundamental issues: patents generated by AI systems have the right for application to be patentable, the prerequisites for obtaining patents, and how AI might enhance the patent application process. Moreover, the paper identifies the case of DABUS, which is wildly divergent in its approach to AI-generated inventions. Furthermore, institutions that have started thinking about formulations are the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the European Patent Office (EPO), which offer formations that consider the involvement of AI in invention. However, there are debates, including whether AI can be recognized as an inventor so businesses can protect their inventions effectively. For organizations that use AI for product development, there are choices on the kind of patent rights to grant and what AI methodologies permit in case they pose a competitive disadvantage.

Keywords : Artificial Intelligence, Development, Intellectual Property, Patents, Patenable, Rights, Technologies.

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