“What matters is defining the essential features that contribute to the technical effect of the invention at a sufficient level of detail, even if these features, considered individually, are of ...

On March 10, in decision G1/19, the European Patent Office (EPO) Enlarged Board of Appeal held that computer-implemented simulations are not per se unpatentable and warrant the same treatment as other ...

“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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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 European Patent Office (EPO) published its decision to the highly anticipated G 0001/19 on March 10, 2021. It was the first time the EPO has held a hearing via videoconference and only the second ...

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 ...

In a rare hearing, the European Patent Office (EPO) enlarged board met yesterday, 15 July, to consider the patentability of computer implemented inventions.

The original version of this story was published on Legalweek On 6 July this year, the proposed directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions was over-whelmingly rejected by the ...

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 ...