Advanced digital technologies, notably Artificial Intelligence, are capable of developing new and beneficial products and services through the manipulation of data and improve their performance when they have access to greater quantities of data.
In a recently published article, titled "Brainwave to breaktrough: EEG data as Intellectual Property", De Clercq & Partners discuss the IP rights enabling the protection of innovations related to the capture and processing of EEG signals with applications in medical settings and beyond.
Generalizing, it is important to remark that any type of input data may form basis for the type of protection mentioned in this article, in medical or healthcare applications or other sectors.
Obtained experimental data demonstrating a reasonably good correlation between the input data and a disorder or state (for instance through a trained AI model generating "weights" that indicate the most predictive facets of the input data) might be patentable, as long as such correlations have not been publicly disclosed or suggested before filing a patent application.
For guidance on the most effective strategies to protect your data-driven innovations, please contact Hugo Loosvelt (Hugo.Loosvelt@vub.be) or Sophie Cammaerts (Sophie.Cammaerts@vub.be). For more information, you can also visit our page on Intellectual Property Rights.
Do not hesitate disclosing research results that could lead to innovations susceptible for commercial exploitation by filling in the Invention Disclosure Form (PRIOR to public disclosure).
VUB TechTransfer is here to guide you towards the best ways to produce your valuable IP, while balancing the need for publishing your research results.