Error message

Deprecated function: Using ${var} in strings is deprecated, use {$var} instead in include_once() (line 1442 of /home/patently/domains/xepc.eu/public_html/includes/bootstrap.inc).
Deprecated function: Using ${var} in strings is deprecated, use {$var} instead in include_once() (line 1442 of /home/patently/domains/xepc.eu/public_html/includes/bootstrap.inc).
Deprecated function: Optional parameter $type declared before required parameter $nid is implicitly treated as a required parameter in include_once() (line 1442 of /home/patently/domains/xepc.eu/public_html/includes/bootstrap.inc).

Under Art. 53(c) EPC diagnostic methods practised on the human or animal body are also excluded from patentability. However, the boards construe the exception applicable to diagnostic methods more narrowly than that applicable to surgical and therapeutic methods.

CLR I B 4.4.3 Avoiding the non‑patentability under Article 53(c) EPC of methods with therapeutic effect

CLR I B 4.4.2.B Therapeutic and non-therapeutic effects distinguishable

CLR I B 4.4.2.A Inevitable and inextricably linked therapeutic effect of the claimed method

CLR I B 4.4.2 Methods with both therapeutic and non-therapeutic indications

CLR I B 4.4.1.B Application in the case law

CLR I B 4.4.1.A Definition of the term

The first definition of the term was given in T 144/83 (OJ 1986, 301). According to this decision, therapy relates to the treatment of a disease in general or to a curative treatment in the narrow sense as well as the alleviation of the symptoms of pain and suffering.

CLR I B 4.5.1.B Involvement of practitioner

CLR I B 4.5.1.A What constitutes "diagnostic methods"

CLR I B 4.5.1 Opinion G 1/04 of the Enlarged Board of Appeal

CLR I B 4.5 Diagnostic methods