AI

Case law

EPO Board of Appeal clarifies the bar for AI/ML patent disclosure: T 1669/21 case note

The EPO Board of Appeal recently handed down a decision in case T 1669/21 that has important implications for patent practitioners drafting machine learning patent applications.

AI in Healthcare series

AI in Healthcare: transforming clinical trials

The Bioinformatics and Digital Health team are producing short updates delving into recent innovations, future directions, and patentability in AI across healthcare. This instalment highlights promisi...

Case law

DABUS no more (in the UK)

The UK Supreme Court has handed down its decision in Thaler v The Comptroller, the long running saga of whether a concept allegedly generated by a machine called DABUS by its creator Dr Thaler could b...

AI musings

T 0183/21 - Feedback control of model training

This recent decision concerned a recommender system for recommending items to users, for example video in a VOD system or products.

AI musings

A change of emotional perception

A recent High Court appeal (Emotional Perception AI Ltd v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks [2023] EWHC 2948 (Ch)) has up-ended the examination practice of ANNs in the UK.

AI in Healthcare series

AI in Healthcare: how AI is revolutionising the field of medical imaging

The Bioinformatics and Digital Health team is producing monthly installments delving into recent innovations, future directions, and patentability issues in AI in healthcare. Installment I

AI in Healthcare series

Introducing our AI in Healthcare series

The Bioinformatics and Digital Health team is producing monthly installments delving into recent innovations, future directions, and patentability issues in AI in healthcare.

News

EPO decision adds to sparse case law on core AI patents

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have become ubiquitous, with rarely a day going by without an exciting new development or application. Together with the rise of AI and ML generally, the ...

AI musings

AI in medicine – ways not to get a patent and what we can learn from them

In the more recent decision T 1910/20 building a therapy plan was held not to be a technical task and therefore a display to help better understand glucose measurement data was just a non-technical di...