Time-lapse microscopy patent upheld in Europe

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• 作者：David Pearce ^{david.pearce@barkerbrettell.co.uk}
• 关键词：patents ; time-lapse microscopy ; diagnosis
• 刊名：Reproductive BioMedicine Online
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：34
• 期：2
• 页码：169-171
• 全文大小：247 K
• 卷排序：34

文摘

A case for revoking Stanford University's European patent 2430454 on time-lapse microscopy was set out in Reproductive BioMedicine Online by Sterckx et al. in 2014, on the grounds that the patent claimed a method of diagnosis that was excluded under a provision of the European Patent Convention. An opposition at the European Patent Office in which this ground was raised has recently concluded with a decision that the patent is not excluded from patentability under European patent law and is to be upheld. An appeal from this decision has been filed, but the possibility of the decision being overturned is, in this author's opinion, very limited.