Artificial Intelligence - Navigating the IP challenges

Published

Jun 28 2018

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Partner
UK

I'm a partner in our Intellectual Property Group. Having studied physics at university, I'm fascinated by technology and the way in which it is reshaping our world.

Katharine Stephens

Partner
UK

I am fascinated by IP and the challenge of helping my clients protect, exploit and defend their IP rights to further their business objectives.

Practices

Intellectual Property

Regions

Western Europe

Countries

Katharine Stephens and Toby Bond of Bird & Bird LLP examine the intellectual property issues that arise when developing and using artificial intelligence systems.

Although artificial intelligence (AI) can sound like the stuff of science fiction, we are already interacting with AI-based systems on a daily basis. Voice assistants, purchase prediction, fraud detection, chatbots and a whole host of other applications already implement a number of techniques that fall under the umbrella term “AI” (see box “What is artificial intelligence?”).

This article was first published in the July 2018 issue of PLC Magazine.

Following publication of this article it has been kindly brought to the authors' attention that the European Commission Communication on Artificial Intelligence for Europe referred to in the final paragraph does in fact identity intellectual property as one of the areas which will need to be tackled to ensure an appropriate ethical and legal framework for AI. See section 3.3 of the Communication for further details.

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