Are technology patents helping us with innovation and collaborative creativity, or do they generate hyper complexity that is slowing our societies' advancement? Listen up, and maybe you will decide on your own.

By awarding and defending technological patents, we promote innovation by offering intellectual property protection to the invention and the inventors for what they've created. However, while patents may help achieve this specific goal, we must also wonder if we may be reaching the opposite results in particular situations.

Suppose companies can do research that can be used for good but is locked away in a patent (or any other intellectual property protection vehicle, for that matter). Are we really achieving what we want and what is ultimately good for humanity?

Since most systems are comprised of multiple parts, how can things get built while components of the bigger system remain protected under IP law? How do we balance promoting innovation, protecting innovation, and protecting society from ourselves?

What if Superman goes bad?

Do great responsibilities really come with great power?

If artificial intelligence invents something, does it also own the patent for it?

Of this, and many other exceptional things, we ponder—all in today's podcast.

Guests Joanna Chen, Patent Attorney at Polsinelli (@chenjoanna on Twitter)

Puya Partow, Partner at Seyfarth Shaw LLP (@PuyaPatent on Twitter)

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