| Country / Territory | Institution | Business application | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States of America | United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) | Patent examination management | The USPTO has a program combining AI with big data and machine learning for application in several fields including: the provision of the most useful and relevant information to determine patentability by an examiner; textual analysis of patent applications and subsequent office actions to analyze the entire patent prosecution history; and improving the application programming interfaces to provide better access to the public to USPTO data. The program is developed n-house using open source technology (Java and Python) customized by the USPTO per application per system. The USPTO's AI program includes improvements for Trademarks Operations in the following areas: 1) developing a quality review smart form with analytics; 2) ingesting office actions on the big data reservoir with advanced analytics including usage and descriptive statistics; and 3) determining the efficacy of deep machine learning for image searching for Trademarks. Related links |
| United States of America | United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) | Patent prior art search | United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently added the new artificial intelligence (AI)-based “Similarity Search” feature to examiners’ Patents End-to-End (PE2E) search suite. This new tool will support the USPTO’s goal to grant more robust and reliable patents by further assisting patent examiners as they search for prior art during the examination process. |
| United States of America | United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) | Patent classification | In early 2018 the USPTO was researching deep machine learning Quality Chat Bots to provide ready access to "concept questioning" (instead of keyword) to the USPTO Manual Patent of Examination of Procedures (MPEP) and other claim analytics and classification analytics using algorithms and claim language to better understand trending of claim language and classification. Related links |
| United States of America | United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) | Patent prior art search | In early 2018 the USPTO was delivering a proof of concept, Sigma, using machine learning/AI algorithms to search whole documents against a corpus of documents. For this version of Sigma, patent applications were searched against granted patents and pre-grant publications (US only). Related links |