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It is sufficiency to correspond to the US activation requirements for the EPO. There is a growing trend for the sufficiency of AI-related patent applications…
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It is sufficiency to correspond to the US activation requirements for the EPO. There is a trend toward increasing satisfaction for AI-related patent applications to challenge with EPOs. This is important to keep in mind when drafting a patent application first. This is because it cannot be resolved by later revisions or additions to the application. The central invention of AI-related patent applications is often in practical implementations to solve real problems, and therefore it is not uncommon for AI inventions to be claimed as “black boxes.” This can cause problems with EPO. It ended with the EPO's Appeal Committee rejecting an AI-related patent application. The EPO guidelines have been updated and appear to be more tolerant than the text of the appeal case suggests. Our advice based on this is to provide a thorough detailed explanation of at least one embodiment in order to enable skilled individuals to build, train and implement aspects of machine learning inventiveness.
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