In an age of fast-paced technological change, patents have evolved into not only legal mechanisms of intellectual property, but also structured storage containers of knowledge full of metadata, categories, and formal innovation. This chapter proposes to reframe patents in the context of information science, by focusing on patents as knowledge artifacts, and by seeing patents as fundamentally tied to the global movement of scientific and technological knowledge. With a focus on three areas, the inventions of AIs, biotech patents, and international competition with patents, this work considers how new technologies are challenging traditional notions of inventorship, access, and moral accountability.The chapter provides a critical analysis of AI's implications for patent authorship and prior art searches, ownership issues arising from proprietary claims in biotechnology to ethical dilemmas, and the problem of using patents for strategic advantage in a global context of innovation competition. In this analysis, the chapter identified the importance of organizing information, creating metadata standards about originality, implementing retrieval systems to access previous works, and ethical contemplation about patenting unseen relationships in innovation ecosystems. Ultimately, the chapter called for a collaborative, transparent, and ethically-based approach in managing knowledge in the patenting environment highlighting the role for information professionals and policy to contribute to access equity in innovation.

翻译：在技术快速变革的时代，专利已不仅演变为知识产权的法律机制，更成为蕴含元数据、分类体系与形式化创新结构的系统性知识存储载体。本章旨在从信息科学视角重构专利的认知框架，将专利视作知识制品，并揭示其与全球科技知识流动的本质关联。聚焦人工智能发明、生物技术专利及专利国际竞争三大领域，本研究探讨新兴技术如何挑战传统发明主体性、知识可及性与道德责任等概念。本章批判性分析了人工智能对专利作者身份与现有技术检索的影响、生物技术领域专有权利主张引发的所有权争议与伦理困境，以及全球创新竞争背景下专利战略化运用的现实问题。通过分析，本章指出构建信息组织体系、建立原创性元数据标准、实施历史文献检索系统，以及对创新生态中隐性关联专利化进行伦理审视的重要性。最后，本章呼吁在专利知识管理领域建立协作化、透明化与伦理本位的新型范式，强调信息专业工作者与政策制定者在促进创新成果公平获取方面应发挥的关键作用。