This webinar will discuss the impact of the Enlarged Board Simulation decision G1/19 and the UK Supreme Court Judgment in Emotional Perception on practice at the EPO and the UK IPO, particularly looking at appeal decisions. Although generally endorsing prior case law, G1/19 has prompted a greater level of concentration on ensuring that the requirements of patentability, especially technical character, are met over the whole scope of the claims. Emotional Perception directs UK examiners and courts to follow EPO practice more closely.

The webinar will be of interest to practitioners in the field of computer-implemented inventions and aims to assist with decisions as to what can be protected, drafting applications to be prosecuted in the EPO and the UK and handling examiner objections.

Partner, John Leeming will be hosting this webinar. John has over 30 years’ professional experience. He prosecutes patent applications in the software, electronic and optical fields, with particular expertise in semiconductor device manufacturing equipment and processes. John’s clients range from large multinationals to smaller start-ups, including firms that have successfully progressed beyond the early stages to develop extensive foreign filing programmes.

Protection of software inventions (often referred to as computer-implemented inventions) is a particular interest. John has written several article on the EPO’s approach to this type of invention and has given many presentations on the topic to a variety of audiences.