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22 July 2025NewsPatentsSarah Speight

Emotional Perception: Supreme Court chases the ghost in the ‘machine’

High stakes case addresses question of whether an artificial neural network should be patented in the UK | Emotional Perception will “define the future patentability” of crucial tech innovation | Full summary of EPAI’s arguments from day one.

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