The UK Supreme Court has decided that an artificial intelligence machine cannot be considered to be an inventor in British patent law. The case "Thaler v Comptroller-General of Patents Designs and Trade Marks" involved an appeal regarding two patent applications filed by Dr. Stephen Thaler under the UK Patents Act...
Assessing computer-implemented inventions – the British Approach
The UK Patents Act has the same exclusions on patentability as the European Patent Convention, but the case law over the years has diverged slightly in its approach to assessing whether an application is excluded from protection. The main case now referred to is the Aerotel case (Aerotel Ltd v...
Open Source Software and Patent Infringement
There's a lot of misconception about open-source software an patents. It is possible for an open-source pprogram to infringe a patent