Patent Office Expanding AI Effort to Trademarks, Copyrights

A U.S. Patent and Trademark Office task force on artificial intelligence is expanding its efforts to study intellectual property questions surrounding the technology.

The agency is already seeking comment about how it should adapt its policies to handle patent applications for inventions created with AI, and whether Congress should make any changes to patent law. It plans to extend its inquiry in the coming weeks to AI-related questions involving trademarks and copyrights, Laura Peter, the PTO’s deputy director, told Bloomberg Law.

“To the extent an AI invention is created by a non-human, we are struggling with all of those issues,” ...