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BITS & BYTES

BITS & BYTES is a monthly bulletin presented by TRAIL and its partners - Allen & Gledhill, Drew & Napier, Rajah & Tann, and WongPartnership – that showcases thought leadership in law and technology. It will cover how technology is used in or impacts different areas of law such as commercial law, intellectual property, banking and finance, tort law, privacy and data protection, and cybersecurity. The bulletin will feature commentaries on a particular area of law, technological development or legal policy, case notes and practice notes.

Articles From This Month's Issue

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & ROBOTS

By Dr Stanley Lai, SC, David Lim, Linda Shi, and Justin Tay (Allen & Gledhill LLP)

This is the second part of a two-part article on artificial intelligence evaluation regimes in Singapore and worldwide. The first part reviewed the fast-growing Singapore regime, as seen from recent guidelines that were issued by the Personal Data Protection Commission and a broad ranging consultation that was conducted on generative AI governance. In this part, we review the regimes for AI evaluation in other major jurisdictions and international organisations, before making some brief observations on how they compare to the Singapore evaluation regime.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

By Pramesh Prabakaran (WongPartnership LLP)

This article comments on the UK Supreme Court’s decision in Thaler v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks [2023] UKSC 49 where the court held that artificial intelligence machines cannot be an inventor under the Patents Act 1977 and owners of such machines are not entitled to apply for a patent for any technical advances made by the machines if the machines are said to be the inventor.