Plus ca Change – ML Patenting On Both Sides Of The Atlantic

This past week I travelled to Washington, DC, to speak on a panel with US colleagues on patent eligibility and to visit many friends and colleagues. It was great to meet so many people in real life again and to see that in Washington, as in London, life is returning back to normal. I had many great discussions around patent eligibility and how this is dealt with in the US and in Europe. What struck me was that more and more, the approaches on each side of the pond are getting closer to each other. In most cases, it seems the outcomes are likely to be the same, if not the way the law is applied. One aspect of this is whether machine learning is (and should) be seen as abstract math or as a field of technology/engineering.