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Communiqué of the Boards of Appeal concerning opinion G 3/19 of the Enlarged Board of Appeal
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.