In Thaler v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks [2023] UKSC 49, the UK Supreme Court ruled that AI cannot be an ‘inventor’ for the purposes of UK patent law. The ruling concludes a ...

The United Kingdom Supreme Court (the ultimate appeal level in the UK legal system) has ruled in a decision of 20 December 2023 that an artificial intelligence (“AI”) system cannot be identified in a ...

The UK Supreme Court today rejected a bid by computer scientist Stephen Thaler to patent several inventions churned out by an AI he claims to own. Thaler used his "creativity machine," known as DABUS, ...

China, the EU and the UK are quietly rewriting the rules on standard-essential patents (SEPs) in ways that strip value from U.S. innovators’ technology.

In a landmark decision, the UK Supreme Court has ruled against naming artificial intelligence (AI) programs as inventors for patents, maintaining the laws on patents requiring an inventor to be a ...

The UK's Court of Appeal has declared Apple's payment to patent troll Optis Cellular for standard-essential 4G payment royalties is too low, with the iPhone maker now on the hook for $502 million. In ...

Recent cases and growing budgets show that UK litigation funding is becoming increasingly sophisticated. The unitary patent, if it happens, will provide a further boost In May the UK’s biggest ...

LONDON (Reuters) -A U.S. computer scientist on Wednesday lost his bid to register patents over inventions created by his artificial intelligence system in a landmark case in Britain about whether AI ...

Adds detail from ruling in paragraphs 5-6; reaction in paragraphs 7,9-11 LONDON, Dec 20 (Reuters) - A U.S. computer scientist on Wednesday lost his bid to register patents over inventions created by ...