Berkely Center for Law & Technology is hosting a great half-day virtual-conference this week: 'AI as an Inventing Tool - it's Implications for Patent Law' organized by Prof. Rob Merges, Dr. Yuan Hao (PhD), and Prof. Colleen Chien.
The Winslow Tableau presents an unrealistic conception of the PHOSITA possessing encyclopedic knowledge of all prior art. [...] recent advances in AI provide a more natural model for the hypothetical PHOSITA.
And, although AI may be an automated system, its responses are closer to the 'common sense' reasoning suggested by Chief Justice Roberts in KSR rather than the discarded 'automaton' approach.
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