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2 October 2026NewsAISarah Speight

UKIPO’s veto of Emotional Perception patent is ‘not good for the economy’

Counsel for the tech startup hits back at the patent office’s “archaic thinking”, after a hearing officer insists his reasoning is aligned with the Supreme Court’s landmark artificial neural network decision.

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