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Intellectual property can be a thorny issue in health tech and medtech. The
intersection of healthcare data and AI is setting up some complex patent
showdowns and interesting ethical discussions. What are the implications for how
we think about personal health data and innovation based on that data? Munck
Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared how attorneys are thinking about AI,
IP, connected devices and the data they generate in response to emailed
questions.

You have said that most people neither understand the importance of data nor the
role of data derived from connected medical devices  when it comes to IP. What
do you mean?

Any medical device with any type of sensor collects data. That data can be
ephemeral—meaning it exists only for local evaluation by the device—it can be
stored for later retrieval, or it can be offloaded via a wireless transmitter.
Implanted devices have historically used a near field communication link for
this purpose. However, FDA approval of Bluetooth transmitters for usage within
the body has allowed for the advent of Bluetooth-equipped implanted devices that
can communicate with smart phones. This ability to communicate between a smart
phone and an implanted device will be at the center of all new medical device
technology going forward, as any implanted device will be capable of use for
real time monitoring and data collection. This data is valuable.

Data from simple medical devices in clinical trials is being collected and
stored by medical device companies for the purpose of training large diagnostic
models. This collected data is actually a valuable asset for these companies and
the question is, who owns the data when a person is involved and associated with
the data?

What kinds of legal questions are raised by the way medtech companies, big and
small, are sourcing data from their connected devices?

The legal issues relate to HIPAA and privacy. Is it possible to provide a
document that transfers all rights in the personal data to a company and if so,
what is a company allowed to do with this data? The issue there is the HIPAA
umbrella. Even though one has possession of data, protection of that data may
still come about under HIPAA. Does the sale or distribution of that data for the
purpose of training a model violate HIPAA?  Does the sale or distribution of the
trained model violate HIPAA?

There is currently a large copyright case out there dealing with what can be
gleaned from a trained model, in which ChatGPT is being sued by litigants
claiming that the mere use of their copyrighted creative work to train a model
results in the model being a derivative work of their “original work”. 

Such an approach requires there to be close association with what ChatGPT
outputs and the author’s original work. 

Greg Howison

This line of thought can be extended to models used in the health sector for
training and the such. For example, could a well-trained model somehow be used
to back into the medical information of a person? Suppose there was an
individual with some rare disease that uniquely identifies them, and a query is
made to the model as to what other maladies are associated with that disease. In
a litigation environment, the litigants would argue that the results of this
query might uniquely identify that individual, but the model gurus do not agree
with that. It is difficult to argue that a model is a derivative work of or
closely associated with a personal profile. There will no doubt be litigation up
the road on that. But a well-crafted release should be able to address this
issue.   

Are there competing legal theories regarding data ownership when a
person/patient is involved?

You have to first think about data in and of itself.  Data per se is like
picking up a handful of sand—it is just a bunch of numbers, but the person who
gathers it (or uses a device to gather it) “creates” it (or uses a device to
create it). One can then store all of this data and keep it under wraps and thus
own it. 

Now, suppose the data is created using a machine interfaced with a patient. The
creator (the one operating/controlling the machine) still owns the data, but
there is now a question as to the patient’s rights. This is the old issue of
whether one owns their medical records—collecting data from a machine is no
different than writing information in a file, but this does not necessarily
revoke a patient’s right to access the information. Thus, one might own the data
they created from a patient, but the patient should still have the right to
access the data. 

Furthermore, data ownership can have restrictions placed thereupon by privacy
concerns. There exists a restriction on the use of clinical information in that
it cannot be identifiably associated with a particular patient. The exact same
thing applies for collected medical device data. Suppose one were to collect
blood pressure data from a class of patients aged 65 – 70 over the course of a
year in a very particular locale. This could be used to create a chart of trends
and likewise train a model. Since HIPAA concerns are always there, one usually
is required to release their data for use by other professionals.

That is a long answer to the question, and the short answer is simply that
privacy rules. The creator or collector of the data owns the data because they
collected and assembled it into a structured database, but if it is collected
from a patient there are some potential restrictions on the use of it. 

What are you seeing as categories of IP use cases among your clients?

IP for these clients can be classified as patent, trademark (branding), and
data.  The value of any one of those depends on what business one is in. For
example, any business that requires diagnostics in their business plan will
likely use AI in their development efforts as a tool, such as for gene therapy
research. Almost all drug research will make use of AI models trained on large
(possibly proprietary) data sets as a tool in the research and development of
their drugs. These are businesses that will “use” their IP, in the form of data,
as a tool in their efforts to develop products as a source of value.  

Then there are businesses that will create IP as a source of value. A business
developing a new medical device will have patents at the heart of their IP
portfolio, of course. When the device is sold, the person or company using the
device will create data, and this creation/collection of data will become an
important aspect of their IP. Any company invested in clinical trials will have
data collection as a central part of their IP portfolio. One expects, however,
that any use of a medical device will more than likely have a separate license
as to who owns the data. Even though one owns a device, there is usually a
software component to the device that is only licensed. For example, when an
individual puts on a wearable with a communication link, the data created by the
device from the individual’s measurements usually goes to a cloud service, and
the user license agreement likely stipulates that all of the data thus collected
is owned by the service provider/licensor – look at the fine print!

What kind of nuances are you seeing across your healthcare client categories in
terms of legal and regulatory challenges for class 1-3 medical devices?
Diagnostic development?

From a pure investment strategy perspective, the time to proof of concept is
key. For Class 1 devices, the time required to prove effectiveness is
comparatively fast. So, an investor will know if that dog will hunt within a
short period of time. Getting over the FDA hurdle is also not that onerous or
expensive for Class 1 devices – it may take a couple of years. The time to ROI
on these Class 1 devices is short and more in line with the expectations of most
investors.  

As one shifts to Class 3 devices the investment perspective changes
dramatically. FDA approval for Class 3 devices is expensive and time consuming.
Even if the device proves effective and viable for the market, it still has to
go through the FDA safety evaluation process, and even if the product gets
through the FDA, there remain the hurdles of getting a medical (CPT) code for
reimbursement and then gaining acceptance in the marketplace. The investment
risk primarily lies in whether the device will even gain traction in the market
after clearing the lengthy regulatory processes.

One example of this is neurostimulators for pain treatment. Medtronic is the
leader in this area. The new products on the market address specific pain issues
with a lower price point and arguably better safety than their predecessors. I
have worked on a migraine neurostimulator, which was an interesting area.  This
is a head-implanted neurostimulator – a Class 3 device. I think it will be on
the market next year. Once you identify a large market (such as that for chronic
migraines) that has a need because what is out there may not provide an adequate
solution, this presents a possibility for a new device to successfully be
introduced into the market. A lot of the existing migraine devices are external
and are thus not Class 3 devices, so they are able to be introduced into the
market faster than implantable devices. To go the implant route requires one to
be sure that it is the correct route. The device I worked on was based upon the
well-known minimally invasive Reed procedure developed by Dr. Kenneth Reed, the
inventor of this device. Thus, the effectiveness was already well proven for the
stimulation process, and it was just the safety issue that needed to clear the
FDA due to the device being an implant with a rechargeable battery. This was
considered the path to take, as external leads are not as effective in applying
precise stimulation to a target nerve as implanted leads.

What are some of the nuances of IP when it comes to the importance of the data
derived from connected medical devices that AI/machine learning algorithm models
are trained with?

I do not think there are any nuances as to data. It is just a by-product of the
device. If a device is developed for an application, such as real time
monitoring of blood glucose, the main purpose is to allow a patient to sit there
with their phone and monitor their glucose levels in real time. This could be
used to, for example, set off an alarm or use the information via an AI engine
to predict what levels of dosage are required for an insulin pump. But there is
a lot of data that is collected and, when combined with other information on the
individual, value exists. There is no sense in throwing that away. It is used on
one hand to make the device useful in real time and on the other hand to augment
these large training databases.

What’s your outlook for 2024 /what are some of your predictions/what will you be
watching/looking out for regarding IP in the area of machine learning algorithms
derived from/trained on connected device data? 

I think there will be an increase in use of such things as ChatGPT for user
interfaces in the medical industry across the board. The main use that may be
most disruptive is in self-diagnosis. One will be able to take a picture of a
mole, for example, or a rash associated with shingles, and send it to an AI
engine that will provide a surprisingly accurate diagnosis. The use of AI with
all these new test strips out there will change telehealth quite a bit. For
example, a test strip for a UTI or Strep coupled with a patient’s medical
history will be used to trigger a prescription event in a cost-effective
manner.  

Then there will be the analysis of a patient in a physician’s office prior to
the physician even seeing the patient based on data collected at check-in that
will provide a preliminary diagnosis and a recommendation for drugs and such.
Think of a patient in a dermatologist’s office walking into a booth and doing a
complete body scan—total body photography—prior to meeting with the
dermatologist. The scan can be run through an AI engine and the dermatologist
provided the results in a fraction of the time normally required and with
arguably higher accuracy. Hospitals will also use AI for matching patients to
health care providers to make patient check-in more efficient. Click here to
view an example of this. 

Most of these uses of AI do not require FDA approval. There will be some ethics
issues raised by physicians using this for assisting in diagnoses, but that will
be at a different level. For devices, the trained AI model will usually be a
fixed model that just has to be shown to be effective as to that medical device,
as is the case for a programmed CPU used in current medical devices. As long as
the program is fixed in the CPU it is FDA approved, but once changed it has to
go back to the FDA, as would be the case with an AI model that has its training
altered. There is a concern with adaptive models that retrain themselves as they
are used, and that will raise FDA issues. 

Again, IP in the form of the data in a trained AI model used for the operation
of a device is valuable in the sense that AI is important in realizing such a
device. But the data collected from the operation of the device is a separately
valuable byproduct that can be used to create large training databases that are
in turn used in creating new AI models. All wearables that collect data can
provide a lot of benefits when data collected therefrom is disposed in a
patient’s stored profile and used for making any decision regarding that
patient, not to mention that their data can be used for making decisions as to
other patients in the collective. Wearables will be the primary area to impact
the medical device arena in the near future. They are Class 1 devices at best,
and most can be processed through an FDA 510(k) procedure.    

Have you been encouraged or discouraged by work done by the FDA and other
organizations in attempting to create standards in machine learning regulation
and related areas and why?

For the most part, the FDA does not (or should not) have to be all that
concerned with AI. In the area of therapeutics, if AI is used to develop a drug,
that should not be an issue. However, if AI is used to “evaluate” the
effectiveness of the drug, that is where the FDA has an issue to address. Any
time AI is used to analyze data to predict some result that would in turn be
utilized to generate the result or provide predicted information needed to
approve the drug, there will always be a validation issue associated with the AI
engine.

For a medical device, on the other hand, the incorporation of a trained AI model
into the device is a one-time event that results in a fixed and programmed
device that is able to receive inputs from sensors and the such and “predict”
some result. The device utilizes a specific, fixed AI engine that has been
trained on some databases. If one were to use a wearable with sensors that sense
various biological inputs and then use these biological inputs to predict a
result such as, for example, blood pressure, the question is whether that
prediction is valid. There was a standard for measurement validation put forth
back in 2018 for devices that are used to provide blood pressure information on
a patient.

Although we now look at purpose-built wrist blood pressure monitors as being
accurate, they had to be validated at some point. I am sure there exists some
accuracy issue with respect thereto, but the designers do utilize some type of
algorithm to account for errors in sensors and the like. As the power of AI
engines increases, one can imagine it will be possible to take smart watches and
utilize their various sensor inputs to somehow approximate the wearer’s blood
pressure with a trained machine learning system. The result, however, will still
be nothing more than a prediction. The question remains whether that predicted
result is a valid result. 

Therefore, any time you use an AI engine there will be a question as to the
validity of the results—an issue that will be of concern to the FDA. As another
example, there are systems out there that purport to provide real-time blood
glucose measurements. They provide this based upon a measurement of parameters
associated with such things as sweat. If these measured parameters are run
through an AI engine that provides the blood glucose measurement, it is
important to know how valid these results are. There are just a lot of variables
that go into the prediction provided by any AI engine, such that any
AI-generated prediction presents a concern to the FDA.

The FDA may require some more proof that the model has no issues, but I do not
think that will be a big issue. Updating a model will require a bit more work
though. When a model used in the operation of a medical device is adaptive and
changes based upon feedback, that will have to be addressed separately. In
general, the FDA is just beginning to get its arms around all of this. It is
just recently that these trained models have been implemented in chips that are
capable of being incorporated into a medical device.   

(Based on policy questions from WIPO)

Should IP policy create new rights in data?

This goes to the question of there being some intangible rights in the data. A
very complicated issue. Data is something that is collected from a device or
source that creates it. This is what we refer to as a product of the device or
process. We can protect the device and the process in most cases, but the issue
is whether the product of that device or process is protectable. Right now, the
data generated is not protectable as an intangible property. Sometimes one can
argue that the final data structure (these large training datasets are
structured datasets) is protectible, but not the data itself. These large
training datasets will probably remain proprietary at best.   

Should AI algorithms be patentable?

An algorithm per se is unpatentable. This all goes to the premise that abstract
ideas are not patentable. If the algorithm changes the operation of the machine
in a significant way, that can rise to the level of patentability. But the
algorithm by itself is currently not patentable subject matter. This is
something Congress would have to deal with.

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