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As a Partner in the Boult AI team it is exciting to witness the AI revolution up-close, as inventors have embraced the power of AI/ML techniques.
My practice spans many application fields, from cryptography and telecoms, through bioinformatics and genetic genealogy, via scientific instruments and computer hardware – the common thread being the ubiquity of AI/ML techniques at the cutting-edge of innovation. As a former computational and theoretical physicist, it’s fascinating to peek inside the ML models underpinning ML innovation (some of which pleasingly borrow techniques from my former field) and grapple with the myriad of legal issues ML innovation can encounter.
Indeed, as an academic I experienced first-hand the power of ML techniques to help solve complex mathematical problems and model systems where our physical understanding may be limited. This included the use of techniques familiar in the ML space, such as importance sampling and the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm. Whilst these techniques often aided in solving the underlying first-principles calculations, I also witnessed the rise of neural network-based techniques tackle the first principles problems head on, as part of their journey to become the Swiss Army Knife of applied mathematics.
As always legal change trails technological revolution and in the AI/ML space it is both fascinating and exciting in equal measure to be at the frontier of this. Clients need advice that not only reflects how the patent system handles AI/ML innovation now, but also has an eye on what the legal position might look like in a decade’s time. I am proud to be able to assist my clients in this ever-changing landscape and, like all of us in the Boult AI team, never lose focus of the underlaying aim – protecting the client’s valuable innovation.
With the rise of the large language models, amongst other things, ensuring that the amazing possibilities that AI/ML techniques enable are more widely known, one can only imagine that the pace of innovation will become even quicker. I look forward to what the coming years and decades will bring and know that our team here at Boult will continue to lead the way in the protection of the AI/ML IP yet to come – providing the right blend of practical and imaginative advice to ensure the best possible IP protection.
