14th Feb 2024
A recent Judgment, Emotional Perception AI Ltd v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks [2023] EWHC 2948, in relation to an appeal against a decision of the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) has paved the way for the UKIPO to (at least temporarily) adjust its approach to dealing with patent applications that relate to artificial neural networks (ANNs).
11th Dec 2023
There is no hiding from the fact that artificial intelligence (AI) has well and truly burst onto the scene. Although research into AI has been going on for decades, it is only within the last few years that we have witnessed an explosion of AI applications with profound implications.
24th Nov 2023
The UK is a global leader in semiconductor chip design, packaging and intellectual property. This expertise positions the country in a critical role to play in shaping the future of semiconductor technology. The announcement of the National Semiconductor Strategy in May of this year came as a positive to see that the UK Government is committed to investing in the semiconductor industry.
2nd Nov 2023
We are pleased to introduce the first edition of The Future of Transport newsletter.
27th Sep 2023
With the advent of ChatGPT, talk has turned to whether or not the bots are coming for our jobs. As industries become more reliant upon and integrated with artificial intelligence, the intellectual property industry finds itself at a technological juncture. We must be mindful and consider the implications of AI technologies, such as ChatGPT, on the patent system. This raises the query for inventors and patent attorneys alike: “should we be using ChatGPT to draft patents?” In this article, I aim to explore some of the key considerations when navigating the patent prosecution process at the dawn of ChatGPT.
10th Aug 2023
As established in our previous quantum computing blog here, there is undoubtedly still a substantial amount of research and investment required to realise the full potential of quantum computing. At present, researchers have their sights set on achieving so-called ‘quantum supremacy’: the point at which quantum computers can solve a problem that no classical computer could feasibly solve.
29th Jun 2023
Following on from our blog on quantum computing, this insight examines the underlying principles of quantum simulation and the latest patent trends released in the European Patent Office’s quantum simulation report.
13th Jun 2023
Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots that use foundational large language models (LLMs), supervised and reinforcement learning techniques are currently of high interest, but what about the patentability of such chatbots and systems?