1. Protecting biotech life science research results

2. Why patent ?

3. What is not a patent ?

4. Bar to bio - patents?

5. New science - old rules? Article 52 (1) and (2) EPC Patentable Inventions

6. A true unpatentable, valuable discovery that generated (also) a new world of patents

7. New science - new rules? Rule 23(e) 1 and 2 EPC discovery vs invention

8. New science - old rules? Article 53 (c) EPC Methods of treatment

9. New science - old rules? Article 54 EPC Novelty

10. New science - old rules? Article 54 EPC Novelty

11. New science - old rules? Medical use of known compounds

12. New science - old rules? Article 54 EPC Novelty

13. New science - old rules? Article 54 EPC Novelty

14. Are X-ray / crystallography structures patentable ?

15. Human Genome Project

16. New science - old rules? Article 54 EPC Novelty

17. New science - old rules? Article 54 EPC Novelty

18. New science - old rules?

19. New science - old rules? Article 56 EPC Inventive step

20. New science - old rules? elements of the reasoning

21. New science - old rules? problem – solution approach

22. BRCA1 gene - breast tumor diagnostic method EP 699 754 Myriad Genetics EPO Opposition Division Decision oral hearing 17-18 may 2004

23. BRCA1 gene - breast tumor diagnostic method EP 699 754 Myriad Genetics EPO Opposition Division Decision oral hearing 17-18 may 2004

24. BRCA2 gene - breast tumor diagnostic method EP 785 216 Myriad Genetics EPO Opposition Division Decision oral hearing 29 june 2005

25. Patentability of Small Nucleotide Polymorphisms SNPs

26. New science - old rules? Article 57 EPC Industrial application

27. New science – new rules? Rule 29(3) EPC Industrial application

28. ICOS case EPO Opposition Division Decision, 20 june 2001

29. New science - old rules? Article 83 EPC Sufficiency of disclosure

30. Tissue specific gene expression What to claim ?

31. New generation of biotech patenting

32. Reach - through Claims

33. Reach - through Claims

34. Why Reach - through Claims ?

35. Are Reach -through Claims patentable?

36. Are Reach - through Claims patentable?

37. Written description / sufficiency of description EPO

38. T 694/92 - Mycogen

39. T 315/03 - Harvard - onco mouse

40. Are nanotechnolgies patentable ?

41. Are nanotechnolgies patentable ?

42. Protecting life science research results