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UK Supreme Court
Judgment
11 February 2026
Emotional Perception AI Limited (Appellant) v Comptroller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (Respondent)
Lord Briggs,
Lord Hamblen,
Lord Leggatt,
Lord Stephens,
Lord Kitchin
Does the statutory restriction on patenting a program for a “program for a computer…as such” apply to artificial neural networks (“ANNs”)? If so, does it prevent the Appellant’s application from being patented?
UK Supreme Court
Judgment
11 February 2026
Dairy UK Ltd (Respondent) v Oatly AB (Appellant)
Lord Hodge,
Lord Briggs,
Lord Hamblen,
Lord Burrows,
Lord Stephens
(1) Is the term ‘POST MILK GENERATION’ a “designation” for the purposes of Article 78 of Parliament and Council Regulation (EU) No. 1308/2013 (as amended) (the “2013 Regulation”) such that Oatly AB could not register it as a trade mark? (2) If considered a “designation” of “milk”, does the term ‘POST MILK GENERATION’ clearly describe a “characteristic quality of the product” so that its use is not prohibited by the 2013 Regulation?
UK Supreme Court
Hearing
11 February 2026
Gatwick Investment Limited and others (Appellants) v Liberty Mutual Insurance Europe SE (Respondent)
Lord Reed,
Lord Briggs,
Lord Hamblen,
Lord Leggatt,
Lord Burrows
Whether ‘furlough’ payments made under the Government Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme fall to be deducted from the amount payable in insurance claims for business interruption losses suffered by companies as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Linked cases
UKSC/2025/0068 Bath Racecourse Company Limited and others (Appellants) v Liberty Mutual Insurance Europe SE and others (Respondents)
Legal Issue
UK Supreme Court
Hearing
11 February 2026
Skatteforvaltningen (The Danish Customs and Tax Administration) (Appellant) v MCML Ltd (previously known as ED&F Man Capital Markets Ltd) (Respondent)
Lord Sales,
Lord Lloyd-Jones,
Lady Rose,
Lady Simler,
Lord Doherty
The scope of the doctrine of issue estoppel.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Hearing
16 February 2026
Avaria Niles (Respondent) v Judicial and Legal Service Commission and another (Appellants) (Trinidad and Tobago)
Lord Sales,
Lord Briggs,
Lord Burrows,
Lady Simler,
Lord Justice Colton
Did the Court of Appeal err in holding that a claim for judicial review was available to the Respondent and that the statutory scheme governing disciplinary proceedings did not provide an effective alternative remedy for her jurisdictional complaint?