d) Distinction from cosmetic methods

Therapeutic methods must also be distinguished from cosmetic methods. In G 1/07 (OJ 2011, 134) the Enlarged Board pointed out that it was the express wording of Art. 53(c) EPC that only therapeutic methods were excluded from patentability (and thus cosmetic methods were not) and the exclusion could not be extended to treatments which were not therapeutic in character (see also T 1172/03 making reference to T 144/83, OJ 1986, 301).