England and Wales Case Law

Emotional Perception AI Limited v Comptroller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks

The UK Supreme Court held that the Aerotel approach to EPC Article 52 should no longer be followed, and remitted an AI patent application to the UKIPO.

• Patentability of artificial intelligence
• Computer-implemented inventions
• Interpretation of epc article 52
• Exclusion of computer programs from patentability
• Ai-patentability
• Computer-implemented-inventions

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Symbian Ltd v Comptroller General Of Patents

Symbian Ltd v Comptroller General Of Patents [2008] EWHC 518 (Pat) (18 March 2008)

The court allowed Symbian’s appeal, holding that its patent application was not excluded as a computer program because it solved a technical problem within the computer.

• Patentability of computer programs
• Technical contribution test
• Excluded subject matter under patents act 1977
• Interpretation of epc article 52
• Patentability-of-computer-programs
• Technical-contribution-test

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