Germany: Rezeptortyrosinkinase, Federal Court of Justice of Germany, X ZR 141/13, 19 January 2016

A technical teaching making use of a discovery, e.g. of a natural law, for achieving a particular result is patent-eligible, irrespective of whether or not it has an “inventive excess” beyond the purposeful exploitation of the natural law.

A full summary of this case has been published on Kluwer IP Law.