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ASBCA's FY15 Report – a Look at the Numbers

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 11.05.15

Last month, the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals published its FY15 Report of Transactions and Proceedings, which provides statistics regarding the adjudication of appeals between contractors and the Army, Navy, Air Force, Corps of Engineers, DLA, DCMA, CIA, NASA, other Defense agencies, and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. This year's report reflects that the appellant prevailed in just over half of the appeals decided in the merits (53%) and indicates that, as usual, the board had a high success rate in resolving matters via ADR, with a 93% resolution in non-binding ADR.


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Client Alert | 10 min read | 03.19.26

Emotional Perception Redefines AI Patents: The UK Supreme Court’s Groundbreaking Shift in Computer-Implemented Inventions

[1] In a recent development, the UK Supreme Court ruled that Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are not excluded from patentability due to being a computer program “as such.” In doing so, the Court set out the framework of a new test for the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) to use when evaluating the patentability of computer. The ruling breaks down barriers to the patenting of AI algorithms in the UK and paves the way for a wider change in the UK IPO’s approach to assessing excluded subject matter....