The Business Law Reports
[2020] Bus LR 2146
Chancery Division
Thaler
v
Comptroller General of Patents, Designs And Trade Marks
[2020] EWHC 2412 (Pat)
2020 July 15;Sept 21
Marcus Smith J
Patent— Grant— Formalities— Statutory requirement that applicant for patent identify inventor— Whether requirement satisfied if machine identified rather than natural person— Whether inventor of machine to be regarded as inventor of machine’s inventions—
Patents Act 1977 (c 37), ss 7, 13(2)