This article lists judgments delivered by the UK courts that deal with excluded subject matter.
There has been and continues to be much debate about them and about decisions on them given by national courts and the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office.
Article 52 of the European Patent Convention, which represents the source of UK law in this area and which should have the same meaning[1] states that: The following table lists judgments by year, although it is sortable by any of the other fields by activating the sort icon.
Lawyers, patent attorneys and economists have often debated the effects of the judgments listed above.
Many of these papers discuss more than one judgment, but they have been ordered according to their primary focus, if there is one.