The Business Law Reports
[2022] Bus LR 375
Court of Appeal
Thaler
v
Comptroller General of Patents, Designs And Trade Marks
[2021] EWCA Civ 1374
2021 July 27;Sept 21
Arnold, Elisabeth Laing, Birss LJJ
Patent— Grant— Formalities— Statutory requirements that applicant for patent identify inventor and indicate derivation of right to be granted patent— Applicant identifying inventor as artificial intelligence machine and claiming right to grant of patent by virtue of ownership of machine— Whether statutory requirements satisfied—
Patents Act 1977 (c 37), ss 7, 13(2)