Patent Protection for Artificial Intelligence in Europe
Lin Wang, Shuijing Hu · 2020
In order to increase the possibility of patent entitled of artificial intelligence related inventions at the European Patent Office, applications should focus on what technical problems the invention are solving or identify the specific technical improvements. From the perspective of patent analysis, European artificial intelligence technology is leading the world and in this field, the European Patent Office is one of the most important intellectual property offices, and its legislation and practice of patent eligibility examination for artificial intelligence related Inventions have an important impact on the world. the European Patent Office takes the position in the Guidelines that artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies are based on mathematical methods and are therefore generally excluded from patent eligibility unless linked to a technical application. The updated Guidelines did not make substantial changes to the "technical " requirements of the patent eligible subject, but only further clarified and refined it.