2025/07/19 by M. S. Rajeevan, Rajeevan, M. S., B. Mini Devi +1
Business, Management and Accounting · Computer Science · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #Copyright and Intellectual Property #Digital Libraries (cs.DL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Intellectual Property and Patents #Law, AI, and Intellectual Property
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2508.00871
openalex publication_date 2025/07/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In an age of fast-paced technological change, patents have evolved into not only legal mechanisms of intellectual property, but also structured storage containers of knowledge full of metadata, categories, and formal innovation. This chapter proposes to reframe patents in the context of information science, by focusing on patents as knowledge artifacts, and by seeing patents as fundamentally tied to the global movement of scientific and technological knowledge. With a focus on three areas, the inventions of AIs, biotech patents, and international competition with patents, this work considers how new technologies are challenging traditional notions of inventorship, access, and moral accountability.The chapter provides a critical analysis of AI's implications for patent authorship and prior art searches, ownership issues arising from proprietary claims in biotechnology to ethical dilemmas, and the problem of using patents for strategic advantage in a global context of innovation competition. In this analysis, the chapter identified the importance of organizing information, creating metadata standards about originality, implementing retrieval systems to access previous works, and ethical contemplation about patenting unseen relationships in innovation ecosystems. Ultimately, the chapter called for a collaborative, transparent, and ethically-based approach in managing knowledge in the patenting environment highlighting the role for information professionals and policy to contribute to access equity in innovation.