{"id":194515,"date":"2026-03-10T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/the-supreme-court-considers-whether-an-artificial-neural-network-can-be-patentable-law-firm\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T11:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:40:13","slug":"the-supreme-court-considers-whether-an-artificial-neural-network-can-be-patentable-law-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/the-supreme-court-considers-whether-an-artificial-neural-network-can-be-patentable-law-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"The Supreme Court considers whether an Artificial Neural Network can be patentable &#8211; Law Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxwilliams.com\/2026\/03\/10\/the-supreme-court-considers-whether-an-artificial-neural-network-can-be-patentable\/\">The Supreme Court considers whether an Artificial Neural Network can be patentable &#8211; Law Firm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxwilliams.com\/2026\/03\/10\/the-supreme-court-considers-whether-an-artificial-neural-network-can-be-patentable\/\">https:\/\/www.foxwilliams.com\/2026\/03\/10\/the-supreme-court-considers-whether-an-artificial-neural-network-can-be-patentable\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-10 11:38:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.foxwilliams.com\">www.foxwilliams.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Supreme Court ruled that an artificial neural network (ANN), a type of artificial intelligence (AI) model inspired by the human brain, is considered a computer program under UK law.<\/li>\n<li>The Court clarified that while an ANN constitutes a computer program, it might still be patentable if it has technical features beyond the computer program itself.<\/li>\n<li>The Court sent the case back to the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) to determine if the ANN could meet the remaining patentability requirements using the new reformulated test.<\/li>\n<li>Businesses developing or protecting AI-driven technologies should carefully draft patent applications and review existing filings, considering the exclusion for computer programs \u201cas such\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>The decision highlights the increasing importance of AI-related litigation and the potential for additional guidance from the UKIPO after application of the Supreme Court&#8217;s test.<\/li>\n<li>Ongoing developments in AI regulation mean that the UK government is still exploring policy options regarding copyright and AI, although deadlines may be subject to change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court considers whether an Artificial Neural Network can be patentable &#8211; Law Firm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.foxwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AI.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-194515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194517,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194515\/revisions\/194517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}