- Published on September 8, 2025
- In AI Features
AI Patents in Indian IT: Real Innovation or Just Theatrics?
‘The real test for a patent is to be used in products and deployments with measurable results.’
Image by Nalini Nirad
- By C P Balasubramanyam
As India’s IT majors race to badge themselves “AI-first,” claiming triple-digit patent counts, 190 here, 400 there, have been the calling cards. But do those filings translate into real innovation and revenue, or are they optics more than outcomes?
In the April 18, 2025, case of Recentive Analytics, Inc vs Fox Corp, the US Federal Circuit held that patent claims for applying generic machine learning to new environments such as event scheduling and network maps are ineligible for protection.
The court affirmed dismissal, finding no technological improvement or “inventive concept” beyond the abstract idea of using ML for those purposes.
Claims that simply recite applying a known ML process to a different dataset, without a technical innovation in the ML itself,
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C P Balasubramanyam
Bala is a journalist covering Indian tech companies and startups from Bengaluru.
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