CH-2024-000239 - [2025] EWHC 2202 (Ch)
Chancery Division of the High Court

CH-2024-000239 - [2025] EWHC 2202 (Ch)

Fecha: 01-Sep-2025

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Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWHC 2202 (Ch)
Case No: CH-2024-000239
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
BUSINESS AND PROPERTY COURTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LIST (ChD)
PATENTS COURT

ON APPEAL FROM THE UK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OFFICE

Rolls Building, Fetter Lane

London EC4A 1NL

1 September 2025

Before :

MICHAEL TAPPIN KC

(sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court)

Between :

STEPHEN THALER

Appellant

- and -

THE COMPTROLLER-GENERAL OF PATENTS, DESIGNS AND TRADE MARKS

Respondent

Jacob Turner and Ryan Abbott (instructed by Potter Clarkson LLP) for the Appellant

Stuart Baran (instructed by the Government Legal Department) for the Respondent

Hearing date: 24 July 2025

Approved Judgment

I direct that no official shorthand note shall be taken of this judgment and that copies of the version as handed down may be treated as authentic.