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Claiming a non-therapeutic use with inseparably associated therapeutic effect
By AWA | Posted on January 9, 2012
A use of a substance or composition for the treatment of humans by therapy is excluded from patentability according to the EPC Article 53(c). However, claiming a non-therapeutic use of a substance or composition may still fall under this same exclusion if the non-therapeutic use is inseparably associated with a therapeutic use. This was confirmed...
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