Getting ready for Automated Examination | Patently-O

Associates across the nation at present are drafting motions, patent purposes, and different paperwork utilizing some model of ChatGPT.   In fact, If I have been a choose or examiner, I may additionally be occupied with utilizing AI to assist facilitate my decision-making.  ChatGPT is nice for that as effectively and might present a reasoned construction, together with figuring out of prior artwork and obviousness requirements.

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

Automated Examination: On the patent prosecution aspect, we might shortly be in a state of affairs the place AI techniques will be capable of conduct patent examination on the similar stage of high quality as a typical human examiner.  It appears apparent that we must always depend on the AI to at the very least 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 advantage of that course of is that it could possibly be performed very quickly (speedy allowance / rejection) and doubtlessly at a a lot decrease value.  Definitely, PCT techniques might transfer towards considerably decreasing prices with preliminary search reviews and examination being performed mechanically.

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