Artificial intelligence and patents in Brazil: Overview on patentability and comparative study on patent filings

IF 2.2 Q2 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

World Patent Information Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1016/j.wpi.2023.102177

Tarso Mesquita Machado , Eduardo Winter

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Abstract

Innovations related to artificial intelligence (AI) can impact many technological fields and gather attention of several sectors from industry. Brazil is a developing country with a large territory and consumer market, attracting investment from foreign companies, including AI technologies. In the present work, we carry out a review of the Brazilian IP Law, Guidelines and Resolutions regarding patentability of AI inventions in Brazil, and also perform comparative analyses with the guidelines from the EPO and USPTO. Then, patent searches are carried out to analyze filing indicators of patent applications for AI inventions, wherein it is possible to verify that most of the filing applicants in Brazil are foreign companies, mainly from the US. Brazilian entities, which rank second overall in filing for patent applications in Brazil, do not even appear among the main applicants for AI inventions. We conclude that Brazil is not a competitive country in the production of patents related to AI, and it is important for Brazil to establish some degree of legal certainty regarding patent protection for AI inventions and disseminate knowledge about protecting such inventions by patents, so that inventors opt to disclose their AI inventions instead of keeping them as a trade secret. Therefore, more and more sectors of society might benefit from innovations arising from AI.

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巴西的人工智能与专利：专利性概述和专利申请的比较研究

与人工智能(AI)相关的创新可以影响许多技术领域，并引起行业多个部门的关注。巴西是一个发展中国家，拥有广阔的领土和消费市场，吸引了包括人工智能技术在内的外国公司的投资。在目前的工作中，我们对巴西关于人工智能发明可专利性的知识产权法、指南和决议进行了审查，并与EPO和USPTO的指南进行了比较分析。然后，进行专利检索，分析人工智能发明专利申请的申请指标，可以验证巴西的大多数申请申请人是外国公司，主要来自美国。在巴西申请专利总量排名第二的巴西企业，甚至没有出现在人工智能发明的主要申请人之列。我们的结论是，巴西在与人工智能相关的专利生产方面不是一个具有竞争力的国家，巴西必须在人工智能发明的专利保护方面建立一定程度的法律确定性，并传播有关通过专利保护此类发明的知识，以便发明人选择公开他们的人工智能发明，而不是将其作为商业秘密。因此，越来越多的社会部门可能会从人工智能带来的创新中受益。

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