NIPC Law

iPhones Author iPhone 15   Licence CC BY-SA   4.0   Source Wikimedia Commons   Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lords Justices Newey, Arnold and Birss)  Optis Cellular Technology LLC and others v Apple Retail UK Ltd and others [2025] EWCA Civ 552 (1 May 2025) This was an appeal by Optis Cellular Technology LLC, Optis Wireless Technology LLC and Unwired Planet International Ltd. ("Optis") against a declaration by Mr Justice Marcus Smith on 16 Feb 2024 that a licence annexed to his order was fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory ("FRAND"),   The learned judge had granted the declaration following his judgments in   Optis Cellular Technology LLC and others v Apple Retail UK Ltd and others   [2023] EWHC 1095 (Ch) 10 May 2023 and  Optis Cellular Technology LLC and others v Apple Retail UK Ltd and others   : [2024] EWHC 197 (Ch) 14 Feb 2024.  According to para [4] of Lord Justice Birss's judgment in  Optis Cellular Technology LL...

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...