Abstract Inventions and new ideas are at the center of societal transformation. Inventions have been historically protected by a system of intellectual property law of which patents are at the heart. Whilst patent law is still deeply moored in its roots in the industrial revolution, to a greater extend it has been able to adapt to the successive revolutions like the computing albeit with some challenges. The world is now at an unprecedented threshold of the most far reaching revolution whose consequences to patent law in particular are so far reaching that its impact is still unknown. This is the AI revolution. This paper begins with an analysis of the AI revolution from available literature and research. It notes that there are divergent views among scholars about the impact of AI on various elements of patent law. It posits that this dissonance might be a result of most scholars treating AI as one homogenous block without distinguishing the various phases in the evolution of AI. It thus proposes a new sui generis conceptual framework – [ the Multi-Level Model] as a suitable basis for insightful conceptual analysis of AI impact on patent law with focus on two key questions; patentability and inventorship.

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人工智能对专利法的影响。迈向新的分析框架——[多层次模型]

摘要 发明和新思想是社会转型的核心。发明历史上一直受到以专利为核心的知识产权法体系的保护。虽然专利法仍深深扎根于工业革命的根源，但在更大范围内，它已经能够适应计算机等连续革命，尽管存在一些挑战。世界现在正处于影响最深远的革命的前所未有的临界点，其对专利法的影响尤其如此深远，其影响仍然未知。这就是人工智能革命。本文首先从现有文献和研究中分析人工智能革命。它指出，学者们对人工智能对专利法各个要素的影响存在不同看法。它假设这种不协调可能是大多数学者将人工智能视为一个同质块的结果，而没有区分人工智能进化的各个阶段。因此，它提出了一个新的独特概念框架——[多层次模型]，作为对人工智能对专利法影响进行深入概念分析的合适基础，重点关注两个关键问题；可专利性和发明权。