NIPC Law

 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...

Jane Lambert   Patents Court (Mr Justice Marcus Smith) Thaler v The Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks [2020] EWHC 2412 (Pat) (21 Sept 2020) DABUS was described by its owner, Dr Stephen Thaler, "as a type of 'Creativity Machine'".  I have mentioned it before in Artificial Intelligence - The DABUS Inventions   19 Feb 2020 and Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property   27 Dec 2019 NIPC News.  Dr Thaler claims that his machine has invented a Food Container  and Devices and methods for obtaining advanced attention .  Applications for patents for those inventions have been filed in the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Patent Office.  All three applications have been rejected on the grounds that an inventor must be a human being under the laws of the United Kingdom and the United States and the European Patent Convention. In Britain, Dr Thaler appealed to the Comptroller and his appeal was heard by Mr Huw...