Meeting the Paris Agreement target of maintaining global average temperature increases well below 2.0°C requires rapid innovation in climate-friendly, or green, technologies. A substantial literature has mapped the relationship between patent law and climate change, with the concern that...

Key findings in our submission include: 1. The protection of computer generated works (CGW) should be removed. By removing the provisions on CGWs, the protection of human creations and the protection for human authors remains intact. This is because the CGWs are, by definition, authorless (ie...