NIPC Law

Supreme Court of the United Kingdom Author Kelsey Farish Licence CC BY 4,0   Source Wikimedia Commons   J ane Lambert Supreme Court (Lord Briggs, Lord Hamblen, Lord Leggatt, Lord Stephens, and Lord Kitchin) Emotional Perception AI Ltd. v Comptroller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks   [2026] UKSC 3 This was an appeal by Emotional Appeal AI Limited ("the applicant") against the Court of Appeal's decision in  Emotional Perception AI Ltd v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks   [2024] Bus LR 14, [2023] WLR(D) 500, [2023] EWHC 2948 (Ch) (21 Nov 2023) to uphold the examiner's objection to the patentability of the applicant's invention. I discussed the Court of Appeal's reasoning in  Patents - the Appeal in Comptroller v Emotional Perceptions   on 26 Aug 2024. The Invention The applicant applied to the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office for a patent for a method of training a neural network to reflect emotional perc...

  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...