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AI‐Involved Inventions and Patentability: Emotional Perception AI v Comptroller‐General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks.

The growing use of artificial intelligence technologies in inventions has significantly increased the number of AI‐involved patent applications. This trend has prompted a reassessment of the boundaries defining excluded subject matter in patent law, as exemplified in Emotional Perception AI v Comptr...

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Published in:Modern Law Review Vol. 88; no. 4; pp. 839 - 851
Main Author: Arıkan, Özgür
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Jul2025
Subjects:
Patent law
Artificial neural networks
Trademarks
Patent applications
Artificial intelligence
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