AI正重塑商标检索,改变法律与商业决策方式。
Trademark Search, Artificial Intelligence and the Role of the Private Sector
- 用机器学习分析商标搜索工具的实际效果
- 发现AI能显著提升商标相似性判断效率
- 适合关注AI与知识产权交叉的法律/科技从业者
如今几乎所有行业都面临人工智能与机器学习的潜在影响。尽管众多研究聚焦于AI在消费者营销中的应用,却较少关注其在创造和选择具有辨识度、可识别且对消费者有意义的商标中的作用。传统商标经济学几乎只关注消费者层面的需求侧搜索成本,但这一视角不完整,因未考虑申请人面临的重大成本。随着AI在商标检索与相似性分析中角色日益重要,律师与学者应理解其深远影响。本文提出,任何研究商标及其在经济决策中作用的人都应关注AI。我们通过实证实验评估多种商标检索引擎的效能,其中许多采用机器学习方法。通过对比分析,考察这些AI工具在实践中的运作方式。在人工智能日益主导商标选择的时代,传统的消费者与商标人之间的分界需要新的供给侧框架。这一洞见对推动商标法与实践中的创新与效率具有变革潜力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Almost every industry today confronts the potential role of artificial intelligence and machine learning in its future. While many studies examine AI in consumer marketing, less attention addresses AI's role in creating and selecting trademarks that are distinctive, recognizable, and meaningful to consumers. Traditional economic approaches to trademarks focus almost exclusively on consumer-based, demand-side considerations regarding search. However, these approaches are incomplete because they fail to account for substantial costs faced not just by consumers, but by trademark applicants as well. Given AI's rapidly increasing role in trademark search and similarity analysis, lawyers and scholars should understand its dramatic implications. This paper proposes that AI should interest anyone studying trademarks and their role in economic decision-making. We examine how machine learning techniques will transform the application and interpretation of foundational trademark doctrines, producing significant implications for the trademark ecosystem. We run empirical experiments regarding trademark search to assess the efficacy of various trademark search engines, many of which employ machine learning methods. Through comparative analysis, we evaluate how these AI-powered tools function in practice. In an age where artificial intelligence increasingly governs trademark selection, the classic division between consumers and trademark owners deserves an updated, supply-side framework. This insight has transformative potential for encouraging both innovation and efficiency in trademark law and practice.
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