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17th Feb 2023

Patenting artificial intelligence and neural networks in Germany

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.

2nd Feb 2023

T 0702/20: Mitsubishi Denki – “Sparsely Connected Neural network”: A recent decision from the EPO Technical Board of Appeal illustrates the difficulties faced by AI innovators to obtain patents for Core AI.

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.

4th Nov 2022

Autonomous Vehicle Technologies: Computer Vision

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

UKIPO Releases new Guidance on AI Inventions

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.

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