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ReviewFrontiers in digital health2026

International perspectives on AI-driven pharmaceutical IP challenges.

Grace Y Wang, Jian-Ming Hao, Joe G Chen

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Review in Frontiers in digital health, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Grace Y WangWest Windsor High School-North, West Windsor, NJ, United States.
Jian-Ming HaoIntellectual Property Department, Fox Rothschild LLP, Princeton, NJ, United States.
Joe G ChenIntellectual Property Department, Fox Rothschild LLP, Princeton, NJ, United States.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the pharmaceutical sector by optimizing care delivery and accelerating drug design. While AI introduces significant benefits, it presents complex challenges regarding intellectual property (IP) frameworks. This review examines AI-driven innovations in personalized medicine and drug design, with a specific focus on inventorship issues that directly affect pharmaceutical patent protection. We analyze recent United States (US) legal developments concerning AI inventorship, including the US Supreme Court's March 2026 denial of certiorari in Thaler v. Perlmutter, which definitively resolved the question of AI inventorship under US law, provide comparative analyses of approaches in Germany and China, and identify specific lessons, rather than wholesale reforms, that may help stakeholders navigate the evolving intersection of AI and pharmaceutical IP.

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artificial intelligencecopyrightdrug discoveryintellectual propertyinternational perspectiveinventorshippatent lawpersonalized medicine

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PMID42441086
PMCPMC13334316

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