7th Jun 2023
Earlier this year, the UK Government’s newly formed Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) published their ‘National Quantum Strategy’. In this blog, we highlight some interesting aspects of the report, and also bring attention to its implementation since publication.
16th May 2023
Quantum technologies, including quantum computing, have been rapidly advancing over the last couple of decades. In this insight, we discuss some of the basic principles of quantum computing, and some of the recent patent trends.
17th Feb 2023
Patents relating to artificial intelligence or machine learning are currently in the spotlight and have a strong increase in the number of thereon filed patent applications, even though there are often high hurdles to overcome before granting them. Reason enough to take a closer look at a current case of the German Federal Patent Court (Bundespatentgericht – BpatG) regarding an appeal in patent examination proceedings of a patent application dealing with trained artificial neural networks.
7th Feb 2023
In this insight, we explore patent trends and statistics at the European Patent Office (EPO) in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
2nd Feb 2023
Mitsubishi Denki’s European Patent application 14882049.1 relates to a Hierarchical Neural Network Device and is based on International Application WO2015118686A1. The application is the subject of the EPO’s Technical Board of Appeal decision T0702/20 to refuse the application due to a lack of inventive step.
13th Jan 2023
Towards the end of 2022, the European Patent Office (EPO) launched its first ever “CodeFest”, a competition to help tackle the perennial problem of plastic waste and moving to a circular plastics supply chain.
4th Nov 2022
If a human can do it with two eyes then can computers do it too? Many of the big players in the automotive space are betting on an amalgamation of different, but complementary, types of sensors (including lidar and radar) to develop self-driving cars. Tesla, however, have famously long believed that just cameras and computer vision software are enough. But is this actually true behind the scenes?
4th Oct 2022
On 22 September 2022, the UK IPO published their long-awaited guidance on examination of AI-related patent applications. On the face of it the guidance note does not alter the threshold of patentability of AI inventions at the UK IPO, but rather gives some helpful insight as to where the threshold lies. As an accompaniment to the guidance note, the UK IPO have also provided some specific examples of AI inventions that will, or will not, be considered patentable.