HOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CAN MAKE PATENT SEARCHING EASY Posted on : Feb 26 - 2021

How AI Can Make Patent Searching Easy: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a broad concept that has managed to enter our world subtly and benevolently. Although all technological inventions bring a massive change to human life, AI goes beyond just transforming lives. It stands to understand and replicate the whole fabric of thought and existence. In simple terms, AI is nothing but a computer program seeking to learn. Just like humans observe and absorb their surroundings, AI observes and learns through the data it is fed. Read on to know how AI can be used for patent searching.

AI is Everywhere

Have you ever noticed how your YouTube feed always has interesting videos to offer, or how Alexa and Google Assistant can command your house as properly as a butler? There are many examples of AI’s presence in our day-to-day life, from weather forecasting to recommendations on your favourite online retail store. AI is essentially a human brain in the making. It is an expert system that will reduce human effort.

Patent Searching

Patent search involves searching existing patents as well as publicly available documents to establish the novelty of an invention, which can be anything – technical concept, machine, algorithms, structures, compositions, designs, etc. Further, this search also helps to determine if any granted patent was already disclosed earlier and thus, challenge the validity of the granted claims.

AI and Patent Searching

There is a steep rise in the number of IP assets being filed globally. According to the WIPO 2019 report there was a 5.2% growth in patent filings between 2018 and 2019 whereas the Utility model application has grown by 21.8% between 2018 and 2019.  This upward trend in filings has continued for at last two decades. Therefore, IP resources have grown year on year and finding relevant information in this vast amount of data is becoming more difficult and time consuming.

With increasing volume of patent data, finding relevant information and analysing prior arts is time-consuming when done manually, especially if you want to achieve quality and accuracy. AI can enhance patent searching and help you save time, cost, and effort. While performing patent searches, AI provides high accuracy and incomparable quality in a quick turnaround scenario.

Cohesive approach through effective reuse of knowledge

Deep Learning (DL) and Neural Networks (NN) not only automate the process of searching in huge volumes of information but also learn (store and use) from previously analysed data to improve the accuracy of overall searches. Today’s research is focused on using deep learning and neural networks for classifying or categorizing the patents and finding similar patents. Natural language processing (NLP) is also being used to suggest contextually relevant keywords and their synonyms. This leads to improved concordance between the available knowledge and documents that users want to search for. AI can also help in deriving Insight into the strengths and weaknesses of a technology segment in certain geographies by cross referencing with the IP data and delivering an instant overview of the domain. View More