To obtain patent protection, you will be required to publicly disclose how to make and use your AI model, which may be undesirable if your AI model is otherwise not publicly identifiable.
One important issue for patent law is whether inventions made using AI can be patented. Although U.S. patent law currently requires a human inventor and does not allow patenting of inventions made solely by AI, patents can be granted on some inventions that human inventors make with AI assistance.
Copyright Ownership Issue But when an open-source licensed code is repeated as generated code by a generative AI tool, there may be copyright violation when the usage of such code does not follow the open-source license terms, such as attribution and distribution in a certain manner.
Who can apply for a patent? A patent application can be filed either by true and first inventor or his assignee, either alone or jointly with any other person. However, legal representative of any deceased person can also make an application for patent.
Prompts used for AI software can potentially have IPR protection, but the type of protection will vary: Patent law is unlikely to grant protection unless the prompt is part of a broader technical invention. Copyright law may protect creative prompts but not generic ones.
For example, AI can take an attorney-written claim and generate a suitable title or summary. Make sure the AI tool generates contextually relevant content, understanding the specific requirements of each section of a patent application to fit seamlessly.
AI-generated content can't be copyrighted because it isn't considered to be the work of a human creator.
Technical Process: If a prompt is part of a broader technical process—such as a novel method for interacting with an AI system or a unique way of using the AI to achieve a particular technical result—then it may be eligible for patent protection.
Yes, you can patent an AI invention or a machine learning model. The requirements for patenting an AI invention are the same as other utility patents.