AI-Driven Green Innovation And The Role Of Intellectual Property: Legal Tools For Sustainable Development
- IJLLR Journal
- Jul 8
- 2 min read
Bharat Sharma, Research Scholar, Jamna Lal Bajaj Institute of Legal Studies, Banasthali Vidyapith, Niwai (Raj.)
Aparna Tiwari, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Banasthali Vidhyapeeth.
Abhishek Narayan, Assistant Professor, Dr. K.N. Modi University, Newai
ABSTRACT
The world crisis in climate change requires the change of paradigm to the development of environmentally sustainable technologies. For a few years now, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a strong facilitator of green innovation – delivering efficiencies of energy systems, optimising environmental data utilisation, and developing sophisticated climate resilience measures. The merger of AI and green technologies has, therefore not only put forth immense prospects, but also threw up a large number of legal and policy issues; especially, those that surround Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). The traditional IPR frameworks are frequently unfit to respond to the intricacy of reality of AI-generated outputs, data dependency, and need of climate mitigation. This chapter enacts a critical review of the legal interaction between AI and IPR in the green technology arena with an emphasis on the structural and normativity shortcomings of existing legal regimes. It poses the question of whether the proprietary currencies are sufficiently serving the larger purpose of global environmental welfare or whether they incidentally retard the spread of the climate-decisive technologies. The young generation still abounds with ideas, and the discussion also deals with innovative licensing models, scope of eco-patents, and role of public-interest obligations in the laws of patents. Placing the analysis within the wider backdrop of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the chapter advances a recalculation of the IPR regime to encourage fair access, incentives to innovate, and environmental justice in the AI driven landscape of technologies.
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property Rights, Green Technology, Sustainable Development Goals, Environmental Justice
