“Computer-implemented simulations are as patentable as any other computer-implemented method. Nothing is to be changed in the patentability assessment criteria utilized so far, with the clarification ...

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The EU has spoken: the directive for the patenting of computer-implemented inventions is dead. But that does not mean the end for software-related patents, as long as patent attorneys consider all ...

Suzanne Orian and Nicolas Underwood of Cabinet Beau de Loménie outline the key elements from the EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal’s long-awaited decision in Case G1/19 On March 10 2021, the EPO’s Enlarged ...

The volume of changes to the European Patent Office 2022 Guidelines is smaller than in previous years’ editions and therefore the Guidelines are appreciably stable now, although some changes have been ...

AI as defined by the UK Intellectual Property Office (‘UK IPO’) and European Patent Office (‘EPO’) Applications of AI in biotechnology How biotechnology companies can leverage AI to drive innovation ...

Research and development conducted worldwide is currently driving the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” (“4IR”), which encompasses three major fields: (1) physical technologies, (2) biological ...

However—and perhaps most significantly— the decision has confirmed that programmed computers are patentable in the UK. It also highlighted that when assessing the patentability of computer-implemented ...

No change: That’s the result of an 18-monthlong appeals process that the president of the European Patent Office hoped would clarify the rules on whether software may be patented. In October 2008, EPO ...