R.30 EPC Requirements of European patent applications relating to nucleotide and amino acid sequences

R.29 EPC The human body and its elements

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Under Article 53(a), European patents shall not be granted in respect of biotechnological inventions which, in particular, concern the following:

Biotechnological inventions shall also be patentable if they concern:

Within four months of filing the European patent application, the applicant shall file the certificate referred to in Article 55, paragraph 2, which:

A licence in respect of a European patent application shall be recorded