Huge Surge in AI Patent Applications in Past 5 Years
Financial Times By Clive Cookson
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has estimated that the past five years witnessed a major boom in artificial intelligence (AI), with more than 50% of all patents filed since 2013. From 2013 and 2017, global AI-related patent applications surged from 18,995 to 55,660; IBM and Microsoft owned the biggest AI patent portfolios, with 8,290 and 5,930 patents, respectively. According to WIPO director-general Francis Gurry, the patent explosion "means we can expect a very significant number of new AI-based products, applications, and techniques that will alter our daily lives—and also shape future human interaction with the machines we created." Meanwhile, the proportion of scientific papers to inventions declined from 8:1 in 2010 to 3:1 in 2016, suggesting theoretical research has been overtaken by commercial AI use. Machine learning is the most frequently disclosed AI technique in patents, and computer vision is the most popular functional application. ... "
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