SONN Patentanwälte – IP Attorneys

1. Violation of human dignity in human–animal chimeras

   Human–animal chimeras and methods for their production are excluded from patentability under Article 53(a) EPC if the invention infringes human dignity. This is the case, for example, where the claimed subject-matter does not rule out that the human cells involved in a human/pig chimera integrate...

2. Violation of morality during the development of the invention

   Even if the patentee’s conduct during the development of the invention were regarded as contrary to morality and public order (in the case at hand: research on traditional antimalarial remedies among the Indigenous population of French Guiana, alleged by the opponents to be unfair), this does not...