Title: | Article 8 6) and 7) of the Law No. 31/2009 of 26/10/2009 on the protection of intellectual property |
Field of IP: | Patents |
Type of flexibility: | Exclusion from patentability of plants |
Summary table: |
Article 18 - Matters excluded from patent protection
The following shall be excluded from patent protection even if they constitute inventions under article 5 (7): of this Law;
6° plants and animals, including their parts, other than micro-organisms, and essentially biological processes for the production of plants or animals and their parts, other than non-biological and microbiological processes and products obtained from those processes;
7° animal and plant varieties;