Communiqué of the Boards of Appeal concerning opinion G 3/19 of the Enlarged Board of Appeal
http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/communications/2020/20200514.html Content reproduced from the Website of the European Patent Office as permitted by their terms of use.The Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office issued opinion G 3/19 (Pepper) today and concluded that plants and animals exclusively obtained by essentially biological processes are not patentable.