Black-box Medicine and Indian Patent Law: Why India’s Disclosure Framework Struggles with Black-box AI
As machine learning systems increasingly transform healthcare, patent law faces a fundamental challenge: how should it protect inventions whose inner workings even their creators cannot fully explain? Dr. Gunjan Chawla Arora and Nidhi Krishna examine how India’s patent framework grapples with the rise of “black-box” medical AI, and whether existing disclosure requirements are compatible with the realities of modern machine learning. Dr. Arora is an Assistant Professor of Law & Head, Centre for Intellectual Property Rights, Institute of Law, Nirma University, and […]









