ChatGPT, an interactive artificial intelligence released by OpenAI on November 30, 2022, is becoming a social issue.Patent competition has been intensified to preoccupy the super-largeAI technology that is the basis of ChatGPT.
According to the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the number of ultra-large AI-related patent applications filed in the five major intellectual property countries (IP5: Korea, United States, Japan, China, and Europe) has increased by about 28 times over the past 10 years.
In particular, over the past five years, the average annual growth rate has been 61.3%, which seems to be the result of active research on AI after the 'AlphaGo shock in 2016'.
When looking at applicants by country, the United States (35.6%), China (31.0%), and Japan (11.6%) ranked in a row.
In terms of the average annual growth rate, Korea (89.7% on average) and China (79.3% on average) are showing a steep rise.
Korea reached 1,912 applications in 2020,thereby marking 319 timescompared to the number of 2011, when received only six applications per year. In 2019, Korea surpassed Japan in the annual number of applications.
Park Jae-il, head of the artificial intelligence big data review division at the Korean Intellectual Property Office said that "Super-large AI is a new growth engine for Korea to take a leap forward as a technology that has a great impact on various industries."