Use of AI systems like ChatGPT has highlighted existing ambiguity about what qualifies for a patent.
Share on nextdoor ; Note: Patents identified by location of inventors; Excludes metros with fewer than 50 patents in 2022; A bigger bubble indicates greater change; Map: Kavya Beheraj/Axios52% from 2012, according to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office data.
Utility patents may be granted for inventing or discovering a new and useful process, machine or composition of matter, among other things.Guidance from the USPTO, issued in February, states that a person's use of an AI system does not necessarily preclude them from qualifying asto USPTO that "AI should be regarded as a sophisticated tool assisting human innovation, analogous to any other instrument used in the creative process.
That said, the number of patents granted is still a useful proxy for measuring something as quantitatively slippery as "innovation."In terms of raw numbers, the San José and San Francisco metros blew the rest of the country out of the water in 2022, with 14,089 and 11,346 patents granted respectively.Share on linkedin
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