美国人工智能专利客体制度研究  

A Study on the U.S.Patent Eligibility Jurisprudence for Artificial Intelligence

作　　者：安蕾[1] AN Lei(Patent Examination Cooperation Beijing Center of the Patent Office,CNIPA,Beijing 100160,China)

机构地区：[1]国家知识产权局专利局专利审查协作北京中心,北京100160

出　　处：《情报工程》2023年第5期20-35,共16页Technology Intelligence Engineering

摘　　要：[目的/意义]通过深刻分析美国人工智能专利判例法发展的历史背景原因,积累域外情报信息、制度经验,少走历史弯路,为在国际视野下建立中国特色的人工智能专利保护规则提供重要参考。[方法/过程]基于美国人工智能专利的定义和申请趋势,以专利客体制度沿革中的里程碑式判例为研究素材,按时间线勾画美国人工智能专利的判例法发展历程。[结果/结论]美国长期以来在人工智能领域的绝对领先地位与其顺应于科技发展而演变的专利客体制度密切相关,未来,美国专利客体制度还将在人工智能的新挑战下继续演变。[Objective/Significance]Accumulates the information of extraterritorial intelligence,institutional experience and historical detours through profound analysis of historical background reasons of the development of the case law of AI patents in the US,and provides important references for the establishment of AI patent protection rules with Chinese characteristics in the international perspective.[Methods/Processes]Based on the definition and filing trends of AI patents in the US,this article takes the landmark cases in the evolution of the patent eligibility jurisprudence as the research material,outlines the development of the case law of AI patents in the US according to the timeline.[Results/Conclusions]The United States’long-standing absolute leadership in the field of artificial intelligence is closely related to its patent eligibility jurisprudence,which has been evolved in response to technological development.In the future,the US patent eligibility jurisprudence will continue to evolve under the new challenges of artificial intelligence.

关 键 词：人工智能 美国专利客体 判例法 Alice/Mayo测试法 

分 类 号：G35[文化科学—情报学] D923.42[政治法律—民商法学] G306.3[政治法律—法学]