Comment by CamperBob2
2 days ago
People who say this are forgetting what it was like in the 2000s, when patent suits were flying back and forth like WWI gas shells. Once people realized that they could patent almost any old idea simply by adding "with a computer" or "on the Internet," the floodgates opened.
Rest assured, right now people are filing claims to the same old stuff, only now "with AI" tacked on. And rest assured, the rubber-stamping machine in the USPTO's basement is running 24/7 approving them.
What’s different now is that tech companies all have mutually assured destruction pacts.
Many key pieces of AI technology, like transformers, have patents. If you start trying to enforce your “…with AI” patent against Google, they’re just going to turn around and sue you for using their patented technology.
Which works great against everybody except NPEs.