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Where AI Works Well and Where it Doesn’t in Predicting Standard Essentiality for Patents

​Artificial Intelligence (AI) is providing enormous productivity and increased value in many applications. But AI is no panacea and is not yet sufficiently well developed to be precise or dependable everywhere.

Essentiality checks might foster SEP licensing, but they won’t stop over-declarations from inflating patent counts and making them unreliable measures

Essentiality checks could help implementers determine with whom they need patent licenses. However, essentiality checking does a poor job in adjusting for over-declaration in patent counts and will encourage even more spurious declarations.

798,000 invention patents were granted in China in 2022

A total of 798,000 invention patents were granted in 2022 and the patent review results secured an accuracy rate of 93.4%, according to news released at the CNIPA press conference on Wednesday. “In 2023, CNIPA will continue to improve the IP review quality and efficiency.

China ranks second in metaverse-related global patent applications

​China ranks second in metaverse-related global patent applications with a nearly 30% share gathered through its 14,291 applications, according to a report by the KIPO. The United States tops with 17,293 applications, accounting for nearly 36% of the total from 2011 to 2020.

CICT Mobile subsidiaries demand 120 million yuan from Samsung China for patent infringement

​ On February 6, CICT Mobile announced that its wholly-owned subsidiaries DT Mobile and Shanghai DT Mobile have filed a lawsuit against Samsung China with the Fuzhou Intermediate People's Court for infringement of its invention patents.