NIPC Law

  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...

 Contains public sector information licensed under the OG Licence v3.0.    Jane Lambert Patents Court (Daniel Alexander QC)  Reaux-Savonte v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks [2021] EWHC 78 (Ch) (22 Jan 2021) This was an appeal by the inventor, Corey Kaizen Reaux-Savonte, against Mr Huw Jones's decision of 19 May 2020 to uphold the examiner's objection to Mr Reaux-Savonte's patent application number GB1520019  for The Genome and Self-evolution of AI (see  Corey Kaizen Reaux-Savonte's application   O/284/20).  The appeal came on before Mr Daniel Alexander QC sitting as a judge of the High Court on 2 Dec 2020. By his judgment which he handed down on 22 Jan 2021, Mr Alexander dismissed the appeal (see  Reaux-Savonte v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks [2021] EWHC 78 (Ch) (22 Jan 2021)). The examiner had objected to the application on the ground "that the invention was nothing more than da...