The USPTO Artificial Intelligence search capability, coming on line next year, will make patent prosecution much tougher.

InventScape’s standardized testing of Artificial Intelligence platforms versus conventional, key word and classified search, discovered that artificial Intelligence platforms found a larger number of applicable prior art than conventional searches. However, the conventional searches found different prior art in addition to some of those found by the Artificial Intelligence platforms. These findings indicate that a protocol combining both Artificial Intelligence and conventional search technology may also out-perform the PTO’s Artificial Intelligence platform.