Ruling of Barcelona Commercial Court no. 5 of 12 September 2017, Commercial Court of Barcelona, AJM B 75/2017, 12 September 2017
A Spanish patents court rules for the first time on the sometimes blurry line dividing “discoveries” and “inventions”. The Court found that a method for prenatal diagnosis based on the discovery that sufficient fetal DNA can also be detected in maternal serum or plasma is a non-patentable discovery, because it lacks any “additional technical teaching”…