| European Case Law Identifier: | ECLI:EP:BA:1994:T082092.19940111 | ||||||||
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| Date of decision: | 11 January 1994 | ||||||||
| Case number: | T 0820/92 | ||||||||
| Application number: | 87902913.0 | ||||||||
| IPC class: | A61K 37/56 | ||||||||
| Language of proceedings: | EN | ||||||||
| Distribution: | A | ||||||||
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| Title of application: | Continuous delivery of luteinizing hormone releasing hormone compositions in combination with sex steroid delivery for use as a contraceptive | ||||||||
| Applicant name: | The General Hospital Corporation | ||||||||
| Opponent name: | - | ||||||||
| Board: | 3.3.02 | ||||||||
| Headnote: | In the case of a method involving administration of two or more substances (here: an LHRH contraceptive composition and oestrogenic and/or progestational steroids) the question for the purposes of Article 52(4) EPC is not whether the main or even the only reason for carrying out the whole of the claimed method is non-therapeutic. Rather a method claim falls under the prohibition of Article 52(4) EPC already if the purpose of the administration of one of the substances is a treatment by therapy, and the administration of this substance is a feature of the claim (cf. point 5.9 of the Reasons). | ||||||||
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| Keywords: | Patentability of a contraceptive method involving a concurrent therapeutic step (no) Presence of one step prohibited under Article 52(4) EPC prevents method being allowable |
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Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t920820ex1.html
Date retrieved: 17 May 2021
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