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).
20th Dec 2023
The “creativity machine” DABUS (Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience) was created by artificial neural networks (ANN) expert Dr Stephen Thaler. According to its creator, DABUS is the inventor of two inventions, including a food container discussed in patent application GB1816909.4, and a flashing beacon for attracting attention discussed in GB1818161.0.
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.
7th Dec 2023
We are delighted to announce that Drew Rudhall has joined the firm as a Senior Associate in our London office.
9th Nov 2023
A new joint study by the European Patent Office (EPO) and European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) shows that start-ups which file applications for registered Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) – including patents, trademarks, and designs – demonstrate a higher likelihood of securing funding from Venture Capital firms (VCs) and achieving favourable exit outcomes for their investors.
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.