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End of the line: DABUS reaches its final stop in the UK
On 20 December 2023, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom handed down its judgment in Thaler v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks [2023] UKSC 49 in which it unanimously dismissed Dr Stephen Thaler’s appeal against the Compt...
It’s been emotional: the High Court says goodbye to excluding AI inventions as computer programs
On 21 November 2023 the High Court of England and Wales published its judgment in Emotional Perception AI v Comptroller-General of Patents [2023] EWHC 2948 (Ch) in which it found a patent application relating to an artificial neural network (ANN) to be...
Reining IT in – Differing Approaches to AI Regulation in the UK and the EU?
Introduction When researchers at Darmouth College coined the term ‘artificial intelligence’ (“AI”) in a research proposal in 1955, they could hardly have imagined the explosive impact the then-fledgling technology would have so...
The Deep Non-Thinker
Lock up your authors! ChatGPT is here! And it’s coming for your IP! The internet is awash with content written about, or written by, the new chat-bot in town, ChatGPT. But what is ChatGPT? And what does it mean for the IP world? ChatGPT, along ...
Tulip Mania - Can an individual or group be said to have de-facto control over a cryptocurrency network?
(Tulip Trading Limited v Van der Laan and Others [2023] EWCA Civ 83) In the Dutch Golden Age, circa 1634, the price of tulip bulbs temporarily reached extraordinarily high levels as market speculators fought to profit from this newly-introduced luxury...
Tulip - a cautionary tale. Do software developers owe a fiduciary duty to users of the code they write? (Tulip Trading v Van Der Laan and Others)
Summary On 3 February 2023, the Court of Appeal in England ruled that the dispute between the Claimant, Tulip Trading Limited (“Tulip Trading”) and the Defendants, who are sixteen bitcoin developers involved with the development of blockch...