In recent years, the European Patent Office (EPO) has made it eminently clear that European patents may be granted for machine learning
On 8 July 2020, the Court of Appeal issued its decision in the Emson v. Hozelock case ([2020] EWCA Civ 871). The
The thorny issue of the patentability (or otherwise) of inventions involving computer simulations at the EPO has been provided with an ending,
When does a technical product become eligible for copyright protection? This is the question the Court of Justice of the European Union
In the latest of a series of judgments concerning the interpretation of Article 3(a) of the SPC Regulation, the Court of Justice
On 3 April 2020, the Technical Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office issued a decision for Appeal T1749/14 against refusal
The Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) of the EPO has confirmed in decision G3/19 that plants, plant material or animals exclusively obtained
The European Patent Office (EPO) has published its latest statistics for European patent applications in 2019. In addition to overall surges in
As was widely reported last year, a series of patent applications has been filed in the name of Dr Stephen Thaler, for
Although substantive law regarding the grant of patents is largely harmonized across Europe, post grant infringement and validity procedures differ from country