Statutory guidance: Examining patent applications involving artificial neural networks | GovWire News

Statutory guidance: Examining patent applications involving artificial neural networks

⌂Back To Homepage Subscribe To RSS Feed

Intellectual Property Office

July 25

12:56 2024

Print This Article Share it With Friends

Created by Intellectual Property Office 0 comments

On 19 July 2024 the Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks v Emotional Perception AI Ltd [2024] EWCA Civ 825.

Following the judgment, the office is making an immediate change to practice for the examination of artificial neural networks (ANNs) for excluded subject matter.

Patent examiners should treat ANN-implemented inventions like any other computer implemented invention for the purposes of section 1(2). This means examiners should apply the Aerotel approach to assess whether an ANN-implemented invention makes a contribution which is technical in nature.

Published 25 July 2024

Help us improve GOV.UK

Dont include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.

What were you doing?

<div class="spacer-break-4 with-icon" style="background-color:#e6e6e6;color:#e6e6e6;"><span class="icon-text"></span></div>
								<p class="original-link"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/examining-patent-applications-involving-artificial-neural-networks" target="_blank">View the original news story</a></p>
								<div class="spacer-break"></div>
							
							</div>
						</div>

<div class="main-nosplit">
							<div class="article-share-bottom">
								<div class="addthis_sharing_toolbox"></div>
								<div class="clear-float"></div>
							</div>
						
						</div>

<div class="content-article-title">
							<h2>Related Articles</h2>
							<div class="right-title-side">
								<a href="#top"><span class="icon-text"></span>Scroll Back To Top</a>
								<a href="/news/intellectual-property-office"><span class="icon-text">📄</span>More Articles</a>
							</div>
						</div>

<div class="related-block">
							
							
							<ul class="article-array">
							<li><a href="/news/intellectual-property-office/statutory-guidance-examination-of-patent-applications-involving-artificial-neural-networks-71540">Statutory guidance: Examination of patent applications involving artificial neural networks</a><span>Wednesday, 29 Nov</span></li><li><a href="/news/intellectual-property-office/guidance-examining-patent-applications-relating-to-artificial-intelligence-ai-inventions-24561">Guidance: Examining patent applications relating to artificial intelligence (AI) inventions</a><span>Thursday, 22 Sep</span></li><li><a href="/news/intellectual-property-office/guidance-examining-patent-applications-relating-to-artificial-intelligence-ai-inventions-24978">Guidance: Examining patent applications relating to artificial intelligence (AI) inventions</a><span>Thursday, 22 Sep</span></li><li><a href="/news/intellectual-property-office/guidance-examining-patent-applications-relating-to-artificial-intelligence-ai-inventions-88916">Guidance: Examining patent applications relating to artificial intelligence (AI) inventions</a><span>Tuesday, 7 May</span></li><li><a href="/news/intellectual-property-office/guidance-examining-patent-applications-for-biotechnological-inventions-22467">Guidance: Examining patent applications for biotechnological inventions</a><span>Tuesday, 30 Aug</span></li>
							
							</ul>
							<div class="split-line"></div>

</div>

<div class="content-article-title">
							<h2>Comments</h2>
							<div class="right-title-side">
								<a href="#top"><span class="icon-text"></span>Scroll Back To Top</a>
								<a href="#writecomment"><span class="icon-text">✎</span>Write Comment</a>
							</div>
						</div>

<div class="comment-block">
							
							<ol class="comments">
								<li><p class='nocomments'>We don't have any comments for this article yet.  Why not join in and start a discussion.</p></li>
							</ol>

</div>
						
						<div class="content-article-title">
							<h2>Write a Comment</h2>
							<div class="right-title-side">
								<a href="#top"><span class="icon-text"></span>Scroll Back To Top</a>
							</div>
						</div>

<div class="comment-form">
							<form action="" method="post" id="writecomment">
							<input type="hidden" name="post_id" id="post_id" value="96587" />
							<table>
								<tr>
									<td><b>Your name:<br><input type="text" placeholder="My name" name="comment_name" id="comment_name" value="" /></td>
									<td><b>Your email:<br><input type="text" placeholder="My email address" name="comment_email" id="comment_email" value="" /></td>
								</tr>
								<tr>
									<td colspan="2"><b>Comments:</b><br><textarea id="comment_txt" placeholder="Your comments…">

Post my comment

Ministerial Departmental News

News Calendar

Recent Comments

Follow Us on Twitter

Tweets by @gov_wire