Patent Office practice notice on patenting inventions involving human embryonic stem cells.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-11 April 2003-UK Government: Patent Office practice notice on patenting inventions involving human embryonic stem cells(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04112003 The Patent Office today published a Practice Notice clarifying the UK's position on inventions involving human embryonic stem cells.

The Patent Office considers that, on balance, the commercial exploitation of inventions concerning certain types of human embryonic stem cells (pluripotent cells) would not be contrary to public policy or morality in the United Kingdom and so they should not be excluded from patentability. Human embryonic pluripotent stem cells do not have the potential to develop into an entire human body. A number of reports from UK political, medical and...