Patent Office Seeks IP Policy for the Artificial Intelligence Era

In an age when artificial intelligence can churn out poetry, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is expanding its query into how intellectual property protections need to adapt to cover creations by non-humans.

Weighty Considerations: A PTO task force, already studying how policies or laws should be changed to handle patent applications for AI-created inventions, will expand in the coming months to weigh AI-related questions involving trademarks and copyrights, Laura Peter, the PTO’s deputy director, told Bloomberg Law. The PTO has a team that advises the Trump administration and federal government on copyright policy, separate from the U.S. Copyright ...