| European Case Law Identifier: | ECLI:EP:BA:1993:T018290.19930730 | ||||||||
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| Date of decision: | 30 July 1993 | ||||||||
| Case number: | T 0182/90 | ||||||||
| Application number: | 86102544.3 | ||||||||
| IPC class: | A61B 5/02 A61B 5/07 A61J 1/00 A61K 9/50 A61K 49/00 |
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| Language of proceedings: | EN | ||||||||
| Distribution: | A | ||||||||
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| Title of application: | - | ||||||||
| Applicant name: | See-Shell | ||||||||
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| Board: | 3.2.02 | ||||||||
| Headnote: | I. The presence of a surgical step in a multi-step method for treatment of the human or animal body normally confers a surgical character on that method (cf. point 2.5.1). II. However, a method which includes a surgical step practised on a living laboratory animal and, in addition, a step of sacrificing said animal, which step is also necessary to carry out the method, cannot be regarded in its entirety as a method for treatment of the animal by surgery in the sense of Article 52(4) EPC (cf. point 2.5.2). |
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| Keywords: | Patentable inventions - surgical treatment (no) | ||||||||
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Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t900182ex1.html
Date retrieved: 17 May 2021
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