| European Case Law Identifier: | ECLI:EP:BA:1987:T038586.19870925 | ||||||||
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| Date of decision: | 25 September 1987 | ||||||||
| Case number: | T 0385/86 | ||||||||
| Application number: | 83104834.3 | ||||||||
| IPC class: | G01N 24/08 | ||||||||
| Language of proceedings: | DE | ||||||||
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| Title of application: | - | ||||||||
| Applicant name: | Bruker | ||||||||
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| Board: | 3.4.01 | ||||||||
| Headnote: | 1. The only diagnostic methods to be excluded from patent protection are those whose results immediately make it possible to decide on a particular course of medical treatment. Methods providing only interim results are thus not diagnostic methods in the meaning of Article 52(4), first sentence EPC, even if they can be utilised in making a diagnosis. 2. A method involving interaction with the human or animal body is susceptible of industrial application if it can be used with the desired result by a technician without specialist medical knowledge and skills. 3. As an exclusion clause, Article 52(4), first sentence, EPC must be narrowly construed. A diagnostic method is practised on the human or animal body in the meaning of this provision only if both examination and establishing the symptoms on the basis of the examination results are performed on a living human or animal body. |
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| Keywords: | Diagnostic method - interim results Interpretation of legal provisions - exlusion clause |
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Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t860385ep1.html
Date retrieved: 17 May 2021
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