Intellectual Property Office
November 29
14:34
2023
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On 21 November 2023 the High Court handed down its judgment in Emotional Perception AI Ltd v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks [2023] EWHC 2948 (Ch). Following the judgment, the office is making an immediate change to practice for the examination of ANNs for excluded subject matter. Patent Examiners should not object to inventions involving an ANN under the program for a computer exclusion of section 1(2)(c).