Artificial Intelligence In Search of Protection — Part IV

AI patents landscape (who patents what and where)

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This is a series of four articles on AI and IP protection:

Part I — Why patenting an AI innovation is different

Part II — The advantages of patenting AI products

Part III — Reasons behind not looking for patent protection

Part IV — AI Patents Landscape

If you are an AI entrepreneur that wants to try to patent something, it is certainly useful to start from mapping the landscape of existing patents to see whether something similar has already been filed and whether an opportunity materializes for your innovation.

This is a very specific process related to what you want to build and goes beyond the scope of this post, but what it can be intriguing to present is the current AI spectrum of patents and players.

CB Insights analyzed over 1,150 AI companies in the last decade (since 2009) finding that 21% applied for a patent and only…