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8 August 2018PatentsWeiwei Han

Questions of novelty in medical use patents

When a substance with a diagnostic or therapeutic effect per se has been available in the prior art, it will become more important to effectively protect the medical use of the substance, particularly in a jurisdiction (such as China) where diagnostic or therapeutic methods are not patent-eligible.

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