ChatGPT速评二:专利审查(价值)面对的挑战...以毒攻毒是解决方案吗?

ChatGPT给专利审查(价值)带来的挑战

ChatGPT Challenges to Patent Examination

【附谷歌英文翻译With Google English Translation】


上一篇ChatGPT速评一中,笔者对以ChatGPT为代表的人工智能会对知识产权(专利)行业带来的影响做了简单分析,算是一个引子吧,接下来是从不同角度的子专题速评 - 本篇视角:专利审查。

1、写在本篇前面

ChatGPT速评一发出后,引发了一定关注和讨论,不过,大家的关注重点,和我想强调的,没有完全并线,嗯,ChatGPT速评一没有展开详细说,这里也就不详述了,还是留着大家慢慢领会啦,或者单聊吧(欢迎)。

专利领域,和日常生活领域,还是差别比较大的,所以,ChatGPT在人们日常中无法实现的,在专利领域可能并不需要关注,换句话说,即便ChatGPT不具备细腻情感从而无法类比李白杜甫写诗,但却极可能在专利这个没有情感的领域造成致命性的冲击(again,不展开了,自行领会或单聊)。

2、ChatGPT会成为审查工具吗?

Well,如果专利审查还在,那么ChatGTP被引入作为审查(包括检索)工具,是完全可以预期的。

实际上,10多年前笔者仍然是patent examiner的时候,针对内部系统提出的需求,其实就有ChatGTP的“影子”。而当初的内网系统已经有的某些功能,例如智能检索、语义检索,乃至于审查意见通知书的标准语段,其实从某个角度看,都可以算作是AI的范畴,只是那时的AI,比起现在AI,从技术层面和效果上看,相差较远,仅此而已,所以,人类并没有在这10多年来变得更聪明,只是技术在进步罢了(不要较劲说技术进步就是人类变聪明的结果,不知道多少人赞同,至少笔者不赞同)。

结论:ChatGPT一定会成为审查工具。

3、ChatGPT会让专利审查变得没有价值吗?

针对这个问题,我的答案是,it depends...

短期(也许是几十年)看,ChatGTP不会让专利审查变得毫无价值。不过专利审查的价值,完全可能按照某种递减的方式随着时间(引发或协同技术)变化。

但一旦ChatGPT速评一中“让专利制度覆灭”的场景出现,专利审查自然就变得毫无价值了。所以,这里面可以理解为有几个变量,它们之间具有某种相互作用关系(非要形象一点,就弄个函数来表示吧 - 一个理论研究方向哦,哈哈)。

函数要表达的趋势便是,随着专利申请的产生倚赖于ChatGPT越多,专利审查的价值极大可能性上越来越低(为什么?联想一下国内目前耗费大量资源在处理的非正常专利申请问题吧)。

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4、有解决方案吗?

从社会总福利的视角,面对ChatGPT可能让专利审查变得没有价值(专利审查这个事情本身是要消耗大量社会资源的)的情形,是否有应对方案呢?

或许前面提到的将ChatGPT作为审查工具(审查员)将成为不得不的选择,从而让ChatGPT来应对ChatGPT,以毒攻毒吧,不过真的如此,这个时候的专利制度,存在的意义又是什么呢?为了让它存在而存在吗?

先点到这里吧,下一篇说一个更具体的ChatGPT可能带来的专利审查挑战吧(其实即便没有ChatGPT,这个点其实都是值得讨论的)。

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Google English Translation


In the last ChatGPT Quick Review 1 , the author made a brief analysis of the impact of artificial intelligence represented by ChatGPT on the intellectual property (patent) industry. Quick Review - The Perspective of This Article: Patent Examination.


1. Written in front of this article

As soon as the ChatGPT quick review was released, it attracted a certain amount of attention and discussion. However, the focus of everyone’s attention is not completely aligned with what I want to emphasize. Well, the ChatGPT quick review has not been elaborated, so I won’t go into details here. , Let’s keep it for everyone to understand slowly, or let’s chat alone (welcome).

There is still a big difference between the patent field and the daily life field. Therefore, what ChatGPT cannot achieve in people's daily life may not need to be paid attention to in the patent field. In other words, even if ChatGPT does not have delicate emotions, it cannot be compared to Li Bai Du Fu Poetry, but it is very likely to cause a fatal impact in the field of patents, which has no emotion (again, don’t start, understand or chat alone).

2. Will ChatGPT become a review tool?

Well, if the patent examination is still there, it is completely expected that ChatGTP will be introduced as an examination (including search) tool.

In fact, when the author was still a patent examiner more than 10 years ago, there was actually a "shadow" of ChatGTP for the requirements raised by the internal system . However, some functions already available in the original intranet system, such as intelligent search, semantic search, and even the standard paragraphs of the office action notice, can actually be regarded as the category of AI from a certain point of view, but at that time Compared with the current AI, in terms of technology and effect, the current AI is far different, that's all. Therefore, human beings have not become smarter in the past 10 years, but the technology is improving (don't compare technology progress It is the result of human beings becoming smarter, I don’t know how many people agree with it, at least the author does not agree).

Conclusion: ChatGPT will definitely become a censorship tool.

3. Will ChatGPT make patent review worthless?

To this question, my answer is, it depends...

In the short term (perhaps decades), ChatGTP will not make patent examination worthless . It is entirely possible, however, that the value of patent examination will vary over time (initiating or synergizing technologies) in a somewhat diminishing fashion.

But once the scene of “destroying the patent system” in ChatGPT Quick Review 1 appears, patent review will naturally become worthless. Therefore, it can be understood that there are several variables, and there is a certain interaction relationship between them (if you want to be more vivid, let’s use a function to express it-a theoretical research direction, haha).

The trend expressed by the function is that as the generation of patent applications depends more on ChatGPT, the value of patent examination is likely to be lower and lower (why? Think about the abnormal patent application problems that currently consume a lot of resources in China Bar).

4. Is there a solution?

From the perspective of total social welfare, is there a solution to the situation that ChatGPT may make patent examination worthless (patent examination itself consumes a lot of social resources)?

Perhaps using ChatGPT as a review tool (examiner) mentioned above will become an unavoidable choice, so that ChatGPT can deal with ChatGPT and fight poison with fire, but it is true. What is the significance of the existence of the patent system at this time? Does it exist in order for it to exist?

Click here first, and the next article will talk about a more specific patent review challenge that ChatGPT may bring (in fact, even without ChatGPT, this point is actually worth discussing ).

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