Title: | Article 5 (2) of the Patent Act of 20/07/1992 as last amended by Law of 24/05/1998 |
Field of IP: | Patents |
Type of flexibility: | Exclusion from patentability of plants |
Summary table: |
Exceptions to patentability
Article 5 - The following shall be excluded from the protection provided by this Law:
2) plants or animal varieties or essentially biological processes for the production of plants and animals; this provision does not apply to microbiological processes or the products thereof