Making ready for Automated Examination | Patently-O

Associates across the nation at this time are drafting motions, patent purposes, and different paperwork utilizing some model of ChatGPT.   In fact, If I had been a choose or examiner, I may also be concerned about 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.

In the event you recall your final writing course, the professor repeatedly centered consideration on the viewers. “Who’s the viewers you wish 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 document 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 facet, we might shortly be in a state of affairs the place AI methods will be capable to conduct patent examination on the similar degree of high quality as a typical human examiner.  It appears apparent that we must always rely on the AI to not less than facilitate examination.  The larger query is whether or not to eradicate the first-level human forms all collectively and transfer to an automatic examination system.  The good thing about that course of is that it may very well be executed very quickly (instant allowance / rejection) and probably at a a lot decrease price.  Definitely, PCT methods may transfer towards considerably decreasing prices with preliminary search studies and examination being executed routinely.

What do you suppose?