Archive - July 2024

The Court of Appeal has upheld the UKIPO’s appeal against the Emotional Perception application and ruled that the artificial neural networks (ANN) in the invention were considered to be computer programs as such and did not provide a technical contribution. The invention related to a media file recommendation system which used an ANN to identify […]

On 3 June 2024, the Unified Patent Court, via one of its Local Divisions in Germany, issued a permanent injunction. This case was among the first infringement cases filed after the UPC started operating on 1 June 2023. The Court has achieved its aim of delivering a decision on the merits in about a year […]