Patenting human embryonic stem cells in peril: the decision of the Enlarged Board of Appeal in G 2/06

Authors
Publication date 2009
Journal Bio-Science Law Review
Volume | Issue number 10 | 1
Pages (from-to) 13-24
Organisations
  • Faculty of Law (FdR) - Institute for Information Law (IViR)
Abstract The Enlarged Board of Appeal has recently decided one of the most sensitive cases it has ever had on its hands, but probably not the last. The referral in the G 2/06 case related to the patentability of human embryonic stem cells (hESC). The main question was whether inventions pertaining to the hESC should be excluded from patentability in the basis of being contrary to order public and morality.
Document type Article
Language English
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