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LEGAL UPDATE

Re-establishment of the right of priority for a Euro-PCT

A right to claim priority exists for 12 months after filing a first patent application for an invention. If this “priority deadline” is missed, the right of priority is lost. Fortunately, the PCT has mechanisms which allow for its restoration, subject to meeting certain criteria.

AI & IP

How will Emotional Perception impact the patentability of AI in the UK?

In the potentially ground-breaking decision on Emotional Perception delivered late last year, the High Court found that a claim relating to a trained artificial neural network (ANN) did not fall foul of the recognised non-patentable subject matter exclusion for being a "computer program as such".