CELEX: 62013CN0364
Language: en
Date: 2013-06-28 00:00:00
Title: Case C-364/13: Reference for a preliminary ruling from High Court of Justice (Chancery Division) (United Kingdom) made on 28 June 2013 — International Stem Cell Corporation v Comptroller General of Patents

7.9.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 260/30
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from High Court of Justice (Chancery Division) (United Kingdom) made on 28 June 2013 — International Stem Cell Corporation v Comptroller General of Patents
   (Case C-364/13)
   2013/C 260/54
   Language of the case: English
   
      Referring court
   
   High Court of Justice (Chancery Division)(United Kingdom)
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: International Stem Cell Corporation
   
      Defendant: Comptroller General of Patents
   
      Question referred
   
   Are unfertilised human ova whose division and further development have been stimulated by parthenogenesis, and which, in contrast to fertilised ova, contain only pluripotent cells and are incapable of developing into human beings included in the term ‘human embryos’ in Article 6(2)(c) of Directive 98/44/EC (1) on the Legal Protection of Biotechnological Inventions?
   
      (1)  Directive 98/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 1998 on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions
   OJ L 213, p. 13