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Costa Rica to become EPO validation state
A validation agreement has been signed between the European Patent Office and Costa Rica. It was signed on 13 December 2024 and is expected to enter into force shortly, making Costa Rica the seventh country to become a "European" validation state. Under the agreement, European Patents can be validated in Costa Rica and have the sam...
Continue readingThe UK court case over Emotional Perception's patent application is set to continue into next year. The UK Supreme Court will consider the case and, we expect, be asked to decide what is a computer program. Earlier the year, we reported on Emotional Perception's success in the High Court, persuading the Judge that because an artificial neural netwo...
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