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News from Abroad: Emerging Practice of the European Patent Office on Stem Cell Inventions

Originally published in Forresters on November 25, 2012. Is There Light at the End of the Tunnel? - It is clear from an emerging practice of the European Patent Office (EPO) that they were not widely impressed...more

News from Abroad: EPO Codifies CJEU's Decision on Human Embryonic Stem Cells

On 8 October 2011, the Court of Justice of the European Union's (CJEU) handed down a landmark judgment on the correct interpretation of Article 6(2)(c) of the Biotechnology Directive (98/44/EC) relating to the patentability...more