EPO rejects WARF stem cell patent
28 November 2008
Managing Intellectual Property
The European Patent Office will not grant patents on human stem cells that involve the destruction of a human embryo, it confirmed yesterday
The decision came in a ruling by the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the EPO on an application for "primate embryonic stem cells" made by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Federation (WARF) in 1995.
The Enlarged Board said that Rule 28(c) of the European Patent Convention bars the...
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