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Practical Claim Drafting Tips for Computer Implemented Inventions In View of G1/19

The EPO’s Enlarged Board of appeal handed down decision G1/19 on 10 March 2021.  This decision concerns the patentability of computer simulations under the European Patent Convention (EPC). &nb...

Simulating the EPC Guidelines After G1/19

As part of the fallout from the recent G1/19 decision, the Guidelines for Examination in the EPO will have to be updated to reflect the new law.  Though there is a bit of a wait until the next up...

Has the Patentability of Computer Simulations Changed in Europe Following the Recent Decision in G1/19?

On 10 March 2021, the Enlarged Board of Appeal at the EPO issued the long-anticipated decision G 1/19 concerning the patentability of computer simulations.  Before this decision, the standard for...

Innovation in Simulations, from Robots to Wrinkles

The big news last Wednesday in the world of computer-implemented inventions was the long awaited publication of the G1/19 decision, developing the law on patenting simulations in Europe.  In light of...

GJE Review: Simulations

GJE’s computer technology team have put together a comprehensive collection of content designed to equip your business with insight into simulations and the role intellectual property has in its...

Does the Latest Simulations Decision from the Enlarged Board in G1/19 Move Us Closer to European Harmonisation?

Of course, they won’t come out and say it, but the answer to our mind is undoubtedly yes – whether that was on purpose or not, only the EPO will know. In 2011, the UK Courts reined in the UK IPO a...

Computer Simulations: Strategy for Patents

The patentability of computer simulations has recently been in the spotlight in Europe.  On 10 March 2021, the Enlarged Board of Appeal (which is the highest court of appeal at the EPO) issued its de...

The Law of Unintended (or Intended) Consequences — The Impact of the Legal Developments on Simulations on Machine Learning

Recent attempts to clarify the EPO’s approach to examining machine learning applications have arguably been missing an important factor… a body of case law on which to base the guidance.  The...

Patenting a Simulation at the European Patent Office — Some Key Points

Simulations are rife in the modern world.  From the design of components for an aeroplane to the movement of people in a crowded space, simulation is finding highly diverse application across man...

G1/19 on Patents and Simulations — How May Industry Feel About the Enlarged Board’s Decision?

We have kept a close eye over the past year on G1/19 the referral to the EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal in relation to the patentability of simulations.  Now that the decision has issued, we th...