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Petitioner / Claimant (Plaintiff)
Astellas Institute For Regenerative Medicine
Respondent / Defendant
The Controller Of Patents And Designs
Dispute Summary
The petitioner appealed against an order rejecting their patent application for 'Improved methods of producing RPE cells and compositions of RPE cells'. The core dispute centered on whether the invention, which uses human pluripotent cells to produce RPE cells, violated Section 3(b) of the Patents Act due to ethical concerns about embryo destruction. The court upheld the rejection order.
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defendant_favorable
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