The US International Trade Commission has refused Apple’s request to halt the ban on sales of the company’s smartwatches, after ruling that Apple had infringed the patents of tech company Masimo. However, Apple won a victory in court and was able to pause the commission’s ban. The lower-priced Apple Watch SE remains unaffected.
A US computer scientist loses his bid to register patents for inventions created by his AI system in the UK. The UK Supreme Court rules that an inventor must be a natural person. This decision does not address the broader question of whether AI-powered machines should be allowed to generate new and non-obvious products and processes.
