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 our last two posts, we explored the tenure of former US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Andrei Iancu, who recently announced his resignation. Iancu noted at the outset that the US ...

“The FCA noted that the use of the terms ‘new and useful’ with the statutory categories of invention indicates that novelty may be relevant in determining whether an invention falls within the ...

While IP Australia’s updated manual could be favourable to computer-implemented inventions, stakeholders would like to see whether a consistent and reliable standard is followed during actual ...

After a long hiatus, IP Australia has granted a patent for a computer-related invention, in this case the software functionality in a gaming machine. The technology relates to a touch-screen graphical ...

Increasingly, companies are using artificial intelligence to invent new methods and products. But can a named inventor be a non-human machine under the law? That depends on which country’s laws are ...

“Both the High Court and the IPAB have declined to define the term ‘technical advancement’. Consequently, the position adopted by the High Court still stands…and the conundrum still remains ...

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

“Change is the essential process of all existence,” Commander Spock said in one of the last episodes of the original Star Trek series. Since the US Supreme Court published its long-awaited opinion on ...

In the recent decision of Bancorp Services L.L.C. v Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (U.S.), Fed. Cir., No. 2011-1467, 7/26/12, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit further ...