When Innovation Creates: Additional Developments in Artificial Intelligence at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office JD Supra

AI systems are already creating works that, if created by a human, would warrant IP protection. Reports of AI-created art, music, literary works, data, technology, formulas, flavors, and other innovations are becoming increasingly common. In 2016, for example, a new "Rembrandt" portrait was unveiled in the Netherlands, generated by an AI system that analyzed more than 300 real paintings of the Dutch master and then used AI, facial recognition, and 3D printing technologies to create an entirely new work in the same style. In 2018, a portrait created using AI sold for $432,500 at auction. A novel publicized as being the first book written by AI was published last year.