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6 April 2021BiotechnologyClare Roskell and Samantha Moodie

EPO’s new examination guidelines: what you need to know

A new edition of the European Patent Office (EPO) Guidelines for Examination came into force on March 1, 2021. Relevant to life sciences, this edition includes a new subsection detailing EPO practice with respect to the interpretation of terms relating to amino or nucleic acid sequences, as well as a new section on the examination of claims to antibodies.

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