Patents - the Appeal in Comptroller v Emotional Perceptions
Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lady Justice Nicola Davies and Lords Justices Birss and Arnold) Comptroller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks v Emotional Perception AI Ltd [2024] EWCA Civ 825 (19 July 2024) This was an appeal by the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks ("the Comptroller") from the decision of Sir Anthony Mann sitting as a judge of the High Court in Emotional Perception AI Ltd v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks [2023] [2024] Bus LR 14, [2023] WLR(D) 500, [2023] EWHC 2948 (Ch)) (21 Nov 2023). Sir Anthony had allowed an appeal by Emotional Perceptions AI Ltd ("EPL") against the decision of the hearing officer Phil Thorpe in Re Emotional Perception AI Limited's Application BL/O/542/22 of 22 June 2022. In that decision, Mr Thorpe upheld the examiner's objection to UK Patent application GB1904713.3 for a Method of training a neural network to reflect emotional perception and re...