IPO's Guidance on Patent Applications Relating to Artificial Intelligence Inventions
Diagram of the Turing test Author Juan Alberto Sánchez Margallo Licence CC BY 2.5 Source Wikimedia Commons Jane Lambert Following the Court of Appeal's judgment in Comptroller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks v Emotional Perception AI Ltd [2024] EWCA Civ 825. [2024] Bus LR 1589, [2024] WLR(D) 339 on 19 July 2024 which I discussed in Patents - the Appeal in Comptroller v Emotional Perceptions on 26 Aug 2024, the UK Intellectual Property Office has published new Guidelines for examining patent applications relating to artificial intelligence (AI) and Scenarios applying the guidelines for examining patent applications for AI . The Guidelines state that AI inventions as computer-implemented inventions. They explain that AI inventions rely on mathematical methods and computer programs in some way. The law excludes from patent protection inventions relating solely to a mathematical method or a program for a computer but when a...