Articles From This Month's Issue
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.