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Date of decision
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01 October 2004
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Case number
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T 0383/03
- 3.2.2
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Application number
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02076295.1
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Title of the application
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Hair removal method using optical pulses
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Applicant name
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THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION
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Headnote
If a method involving a physical intervention on the human or
animal body (treatment by surgery) is clearly neither suitable
nor potentially suitable for maintaining or restoring the
health, the physical integrity, or the physical well-being of
the person or animal, then the method does not fall under the
exclusion from patentability provided for in Article 52(4) EPC.
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Keywords
Method of treatment by surgery excluded from patentability (no)
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