Team:Groningen/human practices legal perspective

Introduction

Over the last few year there has been much addoo about intelectual properties

This section of our wiki tries to give biolegist a understandable legal perspective on the current state of patent law in europe. It does this by ex For

Patent law in general

Patents The main justification for a patent system is to protect the investments required to develop a new method

Some historian argue that patent law originated as early as the itallian renaisance but

According to data from the World Intellectual Property Organization over 1.5 million patents where granted world wide last year alone. This number of course contains many

• New (unpubli)

Patent versus Copyrigth

What rigths do patents give?

• You can still us patented cells for research purposes

History of Eurpepean patents

Most

European Patent Convention or (EPC for short)

7 October 1977 muchen convention

article 53

European patents shall not be granted in respect of: (a) inventions the commercial exploitation of which would be contrary to "ordre public" or morality; such exploitation shall not be deemed to be so contrary merely because it is prohibited by law or regulation in some or all of the Contracting States; (b) plant or animal varieties or essentially biological processes for the production of plants or animals; this provision shall not apply to microbiological processes or the products thereof; (c) methods for treatment of the human or animal body by surgery or therapy and diagnostic methods practised on the human or animal body; this provision shall not apply to products, in particular substances or compositions, for use in any of these methods.