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[2024] WLR(D) 339
Court of Appeal
Emotional Perception AI Ltd v Comptroller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks
[2024] EWCA Civ 825
2024 May 14, 15; July 19
Nicola Davies, Arnold, Birss LJJ
Patent— Invention— Exclusion from patentability— Patent application claiming system for training artificial neural network using pairs of files and applying learning from process— Training stage involving computer program— Whether invention excluded from patentability as “program for a computer … as such”— Whether program making technical contribution outside itself sufficient to avoid exclusion from patentability—
Patents Act 1977 (c 37), s 1(2)(c)