The European Patent Office's Board of Appeal highlighted in case T1952/21 that claiming an improvement in reinforced learning alone is not sufficient to justify the grant of a patent. The patent application was directed to a machine learning system using reinforcement learning. The description explains that, in reinforcement learning, an...
Neural Networks are not Inventive
A recent German Patent Court decision No. 19 W (pat) 7/22 from 1 June 2022 reflected the practice of the European Patent Office in assessing the inventive step of an invention employing machine learning or artificial intelligence. The German Court decided that the mere inclusion of a reference to a...