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Do I have to identify the designer?
It is possible to waive the name of the designer when filing a European Community Design, but you should be sure that you have the rights to the design
Emotional Perception AI Limited v Comptroller General of Patents relates to an AI-based UK patent application. The Supreme Court in the UK has handed down a decision that the EPO patentability test should be followed, and not the Aerotel test as was formerly used.
It seems like just last week I wrote up the 2024 activities of the Intellectual Property...
It’s nearly Christmas, and soon after that it will be 2025. So I thought it would be interesting to look back at what has gone on in 2024 in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court.
We have had quite a few enquiries recently from people who have just realised they’ve forgotten to renew their Trade Marks or registered designs. Why is this happening all of a sudden? In many cases the problem seems to be that records have not been properly updated after Brexit.
On 19th July the Court of Appeal handed down their Judgment in Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks v Emotional Perception AI Limited [2024] EWCA Civ 825. This is an interesting case about the patentability (or not) of an invention involving an artificial neural network.
It is not difficult to find examples of this so-called “google-spoofing” by claims management companies. A few quick searches for well-known car insurance brands followed by “accident report” revealed plenty.
There’s been a lot of fuss made about artificial intelligence in the last twelve months, and some of it has been about artificial intelligence and intellectual property.
It sounds like a simple enough question, but the answer is that ‘it depends!’ UK and European law has excluded from patent protection ‘a program for a computer as such’ since 1977, but the scope of that exclusion has been hotly contested for just about as long.
Registering an internet domain name is cheap and simple. But what happens if someone gets there first with your business name? It would be better to avoid the problem altogether, and we would always recommend checking domain availability and getting trade marks registered in advance of a public rebrand.
There is a lot to entertain the curious follower of patent law in the High Court’s judgment in Shenzhen Carku v The Noco Company .
