A Guide to Patenting Bioinformatics Inventions at the EPO

Many inventions in the field of bioinformatics are computer implemented methods or systems configured to implement such methods. The EPO uses a very specific approach to the assessment of patentability of such inventions, which is sometimes referred to as the “2 hurdles approach”.

Features of a mathematical method and features of presentation of information will be completely ignored in the assessment of inventive step, unless it can be shown they serve a technical purpose in the context of the invention.

Here we look at how to do this for mathematical methods and for the presentation of information.

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