The Business Law Reports
[2024] Bus LR 47
Supreme Court
Thaler
v
Comptroller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks
[2023] UKSC 49
2023 March 2;
Dec 20
Dec 20
Lord Hodge DPSC, Lord Hamblen, Lord Leggatt, Lord Richards JJSC, Lord Kitchin
Patent— Grant— Formalities— Applicant filing patent application and identifying inventor as artificial intelligence machine— Whether applicant required to name natural person as inventor— Whether applicant deriving right to be granted patent by virtue of ownership of machine—
Patents Act 1977 (c 37), ss 7, 13(2)