7:00 pm - Opening Reception
Starhotels Majestic, Turin
Speakers from academia and from industry will introduce AI with a focus on the technology aspects of AI, rather than on the IP issues that AI presents. They will explain the fundamentals of AI and provide examples of AI applications in a variety of real-world applications. This session will provide a basic working knowledge of AI to facilitate the panel sessions that follow.
10:30 – 11:00 am Coffee Break
Panel #1 AI and the Patent Office
Patent Office representatives will discuss the impact of AI on Office operations within the IP5, including how inventions relating to AI are classified and are evaluated for eligibility, novelty and inventive step. Application of AI to Office operations will also be discussed, including the use of AI for classification, search, and other processes.
Moderator: Mr. David Kappos, Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
12:30 – 2:00 pm Lunch
Panel #2: How Are IP Practitioners Implementing AI?
Speakers from the IP profession will discuss how AI has impacted their practices in both the firm and the corporate setting. Issues to be discussed include how practitioners can use AI to improve their practices for the benefit of their clients, what types of tools are available, and what may lie ahead for the future of IP practice.
Panellists will discuss issues raised by AI in areas of IP other than patents, such as copyright, trade secrets, and trademarks.
Moderator: Dr. Guillaume Henry, Assistant Reporter General, AIPPI
The afternoon’s panel discussion will start with the presentation of a hypothetical fact situation to explore how AI and its use affect four key patent issues. Starting with an AI algorithm, the hypothetical scenario will apply that algorithm to a data set to produce a trained algorithm and will then use the trained algorithm to produce some tangible output.
At each stage of the process, the issues that arise around the following four patent issues will be identified:
The objective of this panel will be to identify the primary issues and questions to be addressed during the following day’s discussion. While the panellists will provide the current state of the law and practice and the issues as they see them, significant time will be set aside for discussion and input by all attendees.
The presentations will focus mostly on the law and how it is applied, but also will touch on how claims are drafted in various jurisdictions, focusing on providing the background to identify where the use of AI raises issues to be resolved.
Moderator: Mr. Jonathan Osha, Reporter General, AIPPI
The panel discussion will resume from where it ended before the coffee break.
8:00 pm DINNER FOR DELEGATES AND GUESTS
ARCADIA, Galleria Subalpina (Piazza Castello): Meet in the hotel lobby at 7:30 pm, transfer on foot
This presentation will start with a video clip of a hypothetical fact situation to explore how the involvement of AI in IP can setup ethically challenging situations for both attorneys and examiners. The potential for ethical pitfalls will be presented with a view to some of the patent issues presented in the documentation and the prior panels.
Working with the policy issues and input from the IP5 offices arising from the Thursday sessions, and with other issues identified by the expert panellists, the speakers in two morning sessions will provide a short summary of the discussion from the previous afternoon on each of the four topics and will then lead discussions on the key issues from Day 1.
The objective of these sessions will be to collectively reach a set of conclusions and recommendations for effective IP protection of AI -related and AI-enabled inventions and works.
10:30 – 11:00 am Coffee Break
The panel discussion will resume from where it ended before the coffee break. The session will conclude with discussion of a list of bullet points with respect to which a consensus appears to have been reached. Subsequent to the Colloquium, a written report will be prepared and issued expanding on the items in the bullet points.
12:30 pm CLOSE OF COLLOQUIUM