| European Case Law Identifier: | ECLI:EP:BA:2004:T038303.20041001 | ||||||||
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| Date of decision: | 01 October 2004 | ||||||||
| Case number: | T 0383/03 | ||||||||
| Application number: | 02076295.1 | ||||||||
| IPC class: | A61B 18/20 | ||||||||
| Language of proceedings: | EN | ||||||||
| Distribution: | A | ||||||||
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| Title of application: | Hair removal method using optical pulses | ||||||||
| Applicant name: | THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION | ||||||||
| Opponent name: | - | ||||||||
| Board: | 3.2.02 | ||||||||
| Headnote: | If a method involving a physical intervention on the human or animal body (treatment by surgery) is clearly neither suitable nor potentially suitable for maintaining or restoring the health, the physical integrity, or the physical well-being of the person or animal, then the method does not fall under the exclusion from patentability provided for in Article 52(4) EPC. | ||||||||
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| Keywords: | Method of treatment by surgery excluded from patentability (no) | ||||||||
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Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t030383ex1.html
Date retrieved: 17 May 2021
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