No es patentable una invención biotecnológica que implique la destrucción de embriones humanos.: Sentido y alcance de la sentencia del TJUE en el asunto C-34/10

last october 18th, the european union court of justice pronounced a sentence in order to answer some prejudicial questions, and concluded that a procedure in which stem cells are extracted from a human embryo, being considered so since it′s conception, it′s not patentable if this procedure itself implies the embryo′s destruction. the sentence makes a legal analysis about a series of articles of the directive 98/44/ec, about the law of patents in biotechnological inventions. given the publication of the sentence has been evaluated by multiple articles criticizing or exalting the european union court of justice′s resolution, the main objective of this article is to analyze accurately the legal meaning of the sentence.