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

MUMBAI: A report published by India's largest software exporter, Tata Consultancy Services, 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. In artificial intelligence a'heuristic' is a technique used to solve a problem faster than classic methods. Software is no longer limited to traditional rule-based systems and has increasingly turned heuristic, showing higher intelligence over rule-based systems, it cited.