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Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice Advance Access originally published online on January 26, 2007
Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 2007 2(2):61-62; doi:10.1093/jiplp/jpl222
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Exclusion from patentability under Article 53(a) EPC upon ‘morality’ grounds

David Rogers
Legal Member, Boards of Appeal, European Patent Office,
Munich, Germany
Email: drogers{at}epo.org

T 866/01 of 11 May 2005 ‘Euthanasia Compositions’—Board 3.3.02

The Board's decision turned upon the morality exclusion from patentability, the Board finding that for this exclusion to apply the invention must lend itself only to immoral forms of exploitation.


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