The Supreme Court's Judgment in DABUS
Author Dietary Rabich Licence CC BY-SA 4.0 Deed S ource Wikimedia Commons Jane Lambert Supreme Court (Lords Hodge, Kitchin, Hamblen, Leggatt and Richards) Thaler v Comptroller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks [2023] UKSC 49 (20 Dec 2023) I mentioned the hearing of the appeal from the Court of Appeal's judgment in Thaler v Comptroller General of Patents Trade Marks And Designs [2021] RPC 19, [2022] Bus LR 375, [2021] EWCA Civ 1374 in DABUS in the Supreme Court on 12 April 2023. On 20 Dec 2023, the Supreme Court dismissed that appeal in Thaler v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Mark s [2023] UKSC 49. The Court's judgment was delivered by Lord Kitchin. What This Appeal Was Not About In paras [48] and [49] of his judgment, Lord Kitchin said: "[48] The Comptroller has emphasised, correctly in my view, that this appeal is not concerned with the broader question whether technical advances gener...