It has been hard to miss the hype surrounding the most recent wave of developments in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI); indeed, look no further than the media coverage of DeepMind, the Alphabet-owned AI company famous for its AlphaGo program, which beat world number one Go player Ke Jie in 2017. As previously reported, a number of DeepMind’s patent applications were recently published; this article considers one of the products underlying some of those applications and how DeepMind is trying to protect it. In addition, the article looks at the difficulties that patent applications for Al-based inventions are likely to face at the EPO and how these may be overcome.
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