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AI-Powered Industrial Design Similarity Search

Accountable
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
Functional Modes
Sensing (Perceptive AI)
Human decides
Purpose
Enforcement
Input Dataset
About a place Anonymized data
Algorithm or Model
Computer Vision
Output Dataset
A recommendation or prediction Anonymized data

DesignVision is an AI system used by Government of Canada employees at Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada to search tens of millions of industrial design applications and registrations from 80 international intellectual property offices in seconds, comparing newly-filed designs against existing ones. It uses computer vision and deep learning to rank similar designs and flag potential conflicts, replacing manual visual inspection. The system does not involve personal information. Applicants and the public are informed that AI is used in the examination process.

Sources for this disclosure

This disclosure was drafted with AI assistance.

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Government of Canada – DTPR AI Register