NIPC Law

Author John Speed    Source Wikimedia  Commons   Jane Lambert Patents Count  (Daniel Alexander KC)  Oxford University Innovation Ltd v Oxford Nanoimaging Ltd   [2023] EWHC 138 (Pat) (25 Jan 2023) On 23 Dec 2022, Mr Daniel Alexander KC delivered a remarkable judgment in Oxford University Innovation Ltd v Oxford Nanoimaging Ltd [2022] EWHC 3200 which I discussed in  Patents: Oxford University Innovation Ltd v Oxford Nanoimaging Ltd   on 23 Jan 2023 and in  Student Inventors and their Universities - Ownership of IP in Inventions resulting from Students' Research   on 26 Jan 2023. Mr Alexander upheld a claim for royalties by Oxford University Innovation Ltd ("OUI") the technology transfer arm of Oxford University against Oxford Nanoimaging Ltd ("ONI").  The royalties were for a licence to work patents for inventions that had been invented by one of the University's research students while he had been working at Oxford as an in...

Author   Alisneaky   Licence  CC BY-SA 4.0    Source  Wikipedia Artificial Neural Network Jane Lambert According to The Artificial Inventor Project website's FAQ page, "DABUS" stands for "Device for Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience".  The "About the Team"  page of the same website states that DABUS was created by Dr Stephen L Thaler .  Dr Thaler has applied for European patents for two inventions that were invented by DABUS, namely a food container (application number 18275163)  on 17 Oct 2018 and devices and enhanced devices and methods for attracting enhanced attention (application number 18275174)  on 7 Nov 2018. In  Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property   27 Dec 2019 I mentioned a press release dated 20 Dec 2019 stating that the EPO had refused those patent applications (see  EPO refuses DABUS patent applications designating a machine inventor   20 D...