Patent Information with AI: Machine Translation and Patent Classification for Social Issues

Abstract

As the digitization and standardization have matured the intellectual property world, there are many examples of value creation associated with Digital Transformation (DX). As examples, we introduce Japio-AI translation and automatic classification for social issues, which have been done by the AI Research Center in the Japan Patent Information Organization (Japio). Regarding AI translation, the features and strengths of our machine translation (MT) is shown, focusing on the MT of Chinese patent documents. As for automatic classification, the significance of connecting social issues such as carbon neutrality and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to patent information and its impact on society. These patent information services are expected to promote DX in the field of intellectual property.