Title: Intellectual property issues in artificial intelligence: specific reference to the service sector

Authors: Niharika Singh; Tapas K. Bandyopadhyay; Niharika Sahoo; Kuhu Tiwari

Addresses: Rajiv Gandhi School of IP Law, IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, 721302, India ' Rajiv Gandhi School of IP Law, IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, 721302, India ' Rajiv Gandhi School of IP Law, IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, 721302, India ' Rajiv Gandhi School of IP Law, IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, 721302, India

Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed almost every field of the service sector, such as finance, healthcare logistics, automotive and aviation. The innovative technologies can identify uneven patterns like spam filtering or payment deceit, and make aware businesses in actual time about questionable activities, hence are helpful in the growth of a market. These innovation and creation are protected under different forms of intellectual property (IP). However, the transformation from AI related inventions to AI lead inventions has raised substantial challenges to the existing IP infrastructure. This study aims at looking into different aspects of AI related IP protection with an elaborative analysis of the patenting trends through landscape analysis of AI in the service sector. It is observed that AI is playing a pivotal role in the transformation of the service sector due to its accelerating use. But the issues related to legal and ethical need to be addressed for effective utilisation of AI related invention and creation in the service sector.

Keywords: artificial intelligence; service sector; AI generated works; intellectual property; ethical issue; banking industry; financial institution; machine learning service sector; patent trends; authorship/ownership.

DOI: 10.1504/IJTLID.2021.114920

International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development, 2021 Vol.13 No.1, pp.82 - 100

Received: 27 Aug 2020
Accepted: 25 Jan 2021

Published online: 11 May 2021 *

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