NEW YORKâ??European patent regulators have confirmed an earlier decision that inventions that use or destroy human embryos can’t be patented, turning down a patent application by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s research arm.
The board of appeals for the European Patent Office upheld an earlier rejection of a patent filed by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. The rejection was based on a rule that forbids patenting of inventions that use human embryos for industrial or commercial purposes.