Title: | Section 13 (1) (b) of the Patents Act No. 291 of 1983 as last amended by Act No. 1264 of 2006 |
Field of IP: | Patents |
Type of flexibility: | Exclusion from patentability of plants |
Summary table: |
Section 13 - Non-patentable inventions
(1) Notwithstanding the fact that they may be inventions within the meaning of section 12, the following shall not be patentable:
(b) plant or animal varieties or essentially biological processes for the production of plants or animals, other than man-made living micro-organisms, micro-biological processes and the products of such micro-organism processes;