The UK Supreme Court has handed down its much-anticipated judgment in Emotional Perception AI v Comptroller General of Patents [2026] UKSC 3 on the patentability of artificial neural networks.
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Emotional Perception AI: Supreme Court overhauls decades of UK case law on patentability of computer-implemented inventions
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