India lets AI into patent examination — but who's really deciding?
By Freny Patel ( August 21, 2026, 06:30 GMT | Comment) -- India's Patent Office is putting formal rules around the use of artificial intelligence across patent examination while drawing a line against allowing AI to replace examiner judgment. The safeguards look robust on paper, but the office's own experiments — producing opposite novelty conclusions, fabricated judicial quotations and inconsistent patent classifications — expose a harder question: whether human oversight alone can keep AI assistance from influencing decisions that determine valuable patent rights.India’s Patent Office has told examiners they can use artificial intelligence — but its own experiments show why applicants may want to know exactly when and how they did....
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