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Then patent offices will generate adversarial AI review examiners. Together the AI trolls and AI examiners might for the first time produce true innovation out of the patent-giving process

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Considering the quality of current examinations in the approval process, I don't see how AI can do any worse. Basically now instead of doing a proper technical analysis and search over already approved patents, seems they just approve and "let the courts handle it".

I understand a proper type of technical patent analysis in the approval process is extremely hard and resource consuming, but the way it's handled now is killing anyone not having a legal firm on their speed dial and cash to burn.

> patent offices will generate adversarial AI review examiners

What if someone patents these examiners first? :)

You forgot to mention the AI judges, when there is a dispute.

Isn't that just the objective function?

After said trolls force the hand of the government to invest in a sufficient adversarial network.

AFAICT, a sufficient AI review examiner would validate all inputs that are reasonably coherent, but not necessarily novel.

More likely to be the opposite. It would be very easy to explore prior art through tons of databases. On the other hand, AI has been touted for years to be on the verge of revolutionizing case law and this has yet to happen.

In my experience with patents, you don't really need something novel as much as you need unique words in your patent, its all about wordsmithing.

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