After AI has recently become the mainstream technology, the filing patent of new AI products/solutions from different companies has increased significantly. As Oracle has provided so much knowledge and interesting opportunities for people working in there, Oracle employees always develop themselves at work. No wonder Oracle has over five thousands patents globally.
Since 2013, I’ve researched and came up with an innovative approach & framework to work alongside many of my Oracle colleagues from different DevOps departments allowing us to work together collectively. It was purely designed to work for the people. I remember during a one-to-one meeting in the conference room with one of my colleagues who was a senior Oracle software development staff at the time. He was one of the members in the Oracle product development team holding 2 patents during his time at Oracle. I walked him through the details of my works to help all my colleagues I work with, he told me that the framework I had developed was impressive and that I could also file a patent for my works. As I had no knowledge about patents, it was very interesting to know that my works could also have an opportunity to get one and that I could potentially be an inventor. Regardless, I didn’t want to spend my time to drill into the patent filing process of just obtaining one at the time and instead wanted to focus my full time on the actual works instead.
My colleagues and I had discussions about AI, machine learning and algorithm, we had come up with some great innovative ideas and concepts that we should have filed patents as well.
Now, it reminds me of a recent public controversial case which I had read about recently, this involved an individual filing a patent for an AI System which, after much consideration, was declined by the UK and US courts due to fact that a system is not a human being. At the end of the day, who would have wanted to be Dr Stephen Thaler to be so obsessed on claiming the patent on his AI DABUS system as an inventor due to the fact that he could not be the it.
