The first international scientific & business conference on the European patent with unitary effect and the Unified Patent Court to be held in Poland soon!
We are witnessing the most substantial changes in European patent law since its inception. As announced, the European patent with unitary effect will soon become operational, and with it the Unified Patent Court (UPC) will be launched. The establishment of an...
Rolling the dice: Australian High Court finds electronic gaming machine patent not patentable by a whisker
Introduction The recent High Court of Australia decision in Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd v Commissioner of Patents [2022] HCA 29 considered the patentability of a computer-implemented invention relevant to electronic gaming machines. The High Court’s...
The effects of erroneous prior art disclosure on an invalidity challenge
An invalidity challenge to a claim may not rely upon an erroneous portion of a prior art disclosure if the error would have been apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art.[1] This article examines the current state of the law on determining whether an error in a...
US Federal Circuit upholds restriction on AI inventorship
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has backed the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia’s finding that an artificial intelligence (AI) system cannot be named as the inventor of a patent. The Federal Circuit decision follows a growing...
