Pleased to join the National Association for Patent Practitioners (NAPP) for their annual meeting today. Emily Tait (Jones Day), Jessie Suen (Vaughan, Fleming & Dowler LLP), and I spoke about challenges and opportunities that artificial intelligence bring to patent practitioners.

Highlights of my remarks included:

1. How Covid-19 supercharged the acceleration toward widespread AI adoption, and why this is a bipartisan, existential issue for the United States,

2. Why 70% of patent specialists put AI ahead of all other issues in terms of its likely impact on IP work in the next five years.

3. Determining who is an inventor and who owns AI-related inventions.

4. Patent eligibility: do’s and don’ts,

5. Novelty and nonobviousness: dealing with prior art and inventiveness challenges,

6. Disclosure: dealing with the AI black box,

7. Patent professionals thinking outside of patent law: privacy, copyright, and antitrust issues.

For my article on AI and IP, see: https://bit.ly/2D055W6

NAPP’s website here: https://www.napp.org/