Intellectual property companies encouraged to consider using AI

As artificial intelligence has become an important driving force in various fields, including finance, healthcare and education, experts have suggested that the technology be applied in intellectual property services to advance innovation. Domestic and foreign experts from government agencies, enterprises and universities made the suggestion during a forum themed "Empowered with AI, IP services Connecting Innovation" at the 12th China Intellectual Property Annual Conference in Jinan, Shandong province, last month. Lin Songtao, co-founder of Beijing Mengzhiwang Technology — an IP services provider known as China's "IP Master" — said that AI has played a major role in making their services digital and smart over the past few years, and also has contributed to industrial development. Li Yetao, operations director of Beijing Dawei Software Technology, said that it has also increased research on AI to optimize its IP services, but he regarded AI as an assistant, saying that "we won't rely solely on it to solve all our problems." While urging further improvement in the digitalization of IP services, the administration's plan also calls for more efforts to accelerate the establishment of national integrated public digital service platforms, increase the supply of data resources and public information service products, and help market-oriented data service agencies further develop.