What types of inventions in database technology are patentable in Europe? The EPO guidelines will be updated on 1 March 2021 with a new section specifically on database management systems and information retrieval. In this episode I will walk you through the final draft of the new section to see how clear the guidance is.
This episode is a recording of a presentation I was giving on 29 March 2023 on patents in the Metaverse at the 7th WIPO Conversation on Intellectual Property and the Metaverse. The WIPO Conversations are a forum to facilitate discussion about the impact of so-called “frontier technologies” on IP, including (obviously) artificial intelligence. The topic of my presentation was “Patenting platforms...
I was invited to speak about “Patents for AI inventions in Europe” at the 6th International Conference “Protection of Intellectual Property Rights” in St. Petersburg (Russia). Here’s a recording of my talk. You’ll learn about the status quo of how the EPO examines computer-implemented inventions (CIIs) that involve artificial intelligence, machine learning...
Last week, the Enlarged Board of Appeal finally published its long-awaited decision G1/19 about the patentability of computer simulations. Does it revolutionize the patentability of computer simulations and patents for software in general, as some had hoped? Or is it rather a controlled evolution of the EPO’s framework for computer-implemented inventions? To find out I talked to a...
