The Watson supercomputer used its speech recognition, natural language processing, machine learning and knowledge mining abilities to crush puny human Ken Jennings’ dreams of winning at “Jeopardy!”, but now Big Blue has it chasing down medical patent trolls for fun. Incorporating the Strategic IP Insight Platform, IBM has now programmed Watson to scan millions of pharmaceutical patents and biomedical journals to find, analyze, and record any info touching on drug discovery. SIIP can then seek the names of chemicals, related diagrams, the corporate and scientist who invented and works with the compounds and related words to figure out a patent’s rightful owner. The SIIP function could also highlight which patents may be targeted for acquisition by trolls trying to control a property via a lawsuit or licensing agreement. Click past the break for a video outlining the project, in addition to Watson’s announcement of its engagement to ” Skynet “.
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