Section

  • Patentability of biotechnological inventions

    • Recorded webinar: Post-published evidence – a risky game!


      Watch the recorded webinar on post-published evidence and the conditions in which it is taken into account, held by Katell Le Flao, examiner in the sector HBC-cancer immunology at the EPO. You can use the links below the video in order to directly access specific sections of the webinar or questions asked by the participants.

    • Recorded webinar: Experimental data: impact on patentability in medical applications


      Watch the recorded webinar on experimental data and its impact on patentability in medical applications, held by Elsie Cielen, examiner in the field of 2nd medical applications at the EPO and Britta Kley, lawyer in the Directorate Patent Law at the EPO. You can use the links below the video in order to directly access specific sections of the webinar or questions asked by the participants.

      This webinar was recorded in December 2018. Its content is still valid but should be considered in the light of G 2/21 issued on 23 March 2023, where the Enlarged Board of Appeal concluded that the term "plausibility" did not amount to a distinctive legal concept or a specific patent law requirement.

  • CII in biotech and healthcare

    • Recorded webinar: How to get a patent for computer-implemented inventions in biotechnology and healthcare

      Watch the recorded webinar on computer-implemented inventions in biotechnology and healthcare, held by Matthias Hilbig, team manager in the field of Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics at the EPO.

    • Recorded webinar: Presentations of information – which inventions can be patented?

      Watch the recorded webinar on how the EPO examines applications for mixed-type inventions, i.e. those with claims comprising both technical and non-technical features, held by Susanna Lüdemann, examiner at the EPO. The webinar looks specifically at features relating to the presentation of information, which the EPO analyses to determine whether they contribute to a technical effect serving a technical purpose.

  • Specific topics

    • Recorded webinar: Patenting surgical, therapeutic and diagnostic methods


      Watch the recorded webinar on patenting surgical, therapeutic and diagnostic methods held by Igor Dydenko, examiner at the EPO. This lecture explains how the EPO implements Article 53(c) EPC, i.e. the exception to patentability covering surgical, therapeutic and diagnostic methods and looks into which types of invention relating to such methods could be patentable at the EPO.

    • Recorded webinar: Selection inventions – the rules of the game


      Watch the recorded webinar on selection inventions, held by Markus Borst, EPO examiner in the field of Applied Chemistry and Rob Chapman, EPO examiner in the field of immunology. You can use the links below the video in order to directly access specific sections of the webinar or questions asked by the participants.

    • Recorded webinar: Therapeutic methods – Article 53(c) EPC


      Watch the recorded webinar on therapeutic methods and how to avoid the pitfalls of Article 53(c) EPC, held by Anna Kajzar, examiner at the EPO in the field of medical equipment. Use the links below the video in order to directly access specific sections of the webinar or questions asked by the participants.