Current patent laws are inadequate for Artificial Intelligence-related Intellectual Property: Report

MUMBAI: A report published by India’s largest software exporter, Tata Consultancy ServicesNSE 0.23 %, in association with Confederation of Indian Industry, found that despite the evolution of patent laws, the increasing proliferation of artificial intelligence across the world necessitates new policies for the enforcement of intellectual property rights.

“Current patent laws treat AI software inventions as logical algorithms implemented on the computer. While patent eligibility of algorithms is valid, there is little about how to deal with inventions that are heuristic in nature,” the report found.