Patent law would appear to provide a bit more latitude for protection of inventions involving AI or SI, but there appears to be an open opportunity for both advocacy of opposing positions in this regard within the steady of the evolution of the law with respect to same. Careful monitoring of developments within this realm is required as well as this legal environment is changing just as rapidly as with respect to copyrights.
The human-inventor requirement will obviously also be subject to evolution and examination as we progress more from AI to SI. The interplay between ownership and patentability will obviously require further advocacy and analysis as well.
One area of particularly interesting attention concerns non-obviousness within the realm of SI in particular. As patentability and ownership issues will continue to evolve, the questions associated with whether something is infringing because the claimed invention should not have been deemed non-obvious remains an area ripe of advocacy.
