News Patents and designs 2001

Judgment in Case C-377/98- Legal Protection of Biotechnological Inventions .

Rome, October 10 2001

On October 9, 2001 (Judgment in Case C-377/98), the Community Court of of Justice has dismissed the action brought by the Netherlands seeking annulment of the Community Directive on the Legal Protection of Biotechnological Inventions.

The Court of Justice takes the view that the Community directive frames patent law in stringent enough terms to ensure that the human body is unavailable for patenting and inalienable and to safeguard human dignity.

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