China weighs user-experience improvements in AI-related patent reviews

By MLex Staff ( September 11, 2025, 05:15 GMT | Insight) -- Improvements in user experience, such as faster and more accurate artificial intelligence algorithms or more realistic simulation results, will be factored into China’s assessments of inventive step in patent applications, the country’s top intellectual property regulator said on Thursday.Improvements in user experience, such as faster and more accurate artificial intelligence algorithms or more realistic simulation results, will be factored into China’s assessments of inventive step in patent applications, the country’s top intellectual property regulator said on Thursday....

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