As AI becomes foundational to every sector, patent filings continue to rise, providing rich indicators of future trends.

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Patent inventorship turns on who makes the “inventive leap” that produces a novel, non-obvious innovation. In the AI context, this usually means the inventor is whoever interprets the results.

Some inventors continue to be productive well into their later years, although the characteristics of inventions differ by the age of the inventor, according to new research on patent filings. The ...

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A Chinese invention patent is similar to a US utility patent and protects a new technical solution relating to a product, a process or an improvement thereof. An invention patent has a 20-year term.

Plant patents comprise only a small minority of the total number of patents that have been bestowed by the PTO. In 2005, 1,288 Plant Patent applications were filed with the PTO and 816 were issued.