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Legislative Implementation of Flexibilities - Hungary

Title:Article 6 (4), (5), (6), (7), (8) and (9) of the Act XXXIII of 1995 on the protection of inventions by patents (Consolidated text of 01.03.2011)
Field of IP:Patents
Type of flexibility:Exclusion from patentability of plants
Summary table:PDF

Provisions of Law

Patentability

Article 6

(4) The following shall not be patentable:

(a) plant varieties [Article 105(a)] and animal breeds;

(b) essentially biological processes for the production of plants or animals.

(5) Inventions which concern plants or animals shall be patentable if the technical feasibility of the invention is not confined to a particular plant variety or animal breed.

(6) Plant varieties may be granted plant variety protection under the provisions of Chapter XIII.

(7) A process for the production of plants or animals is essentially biological if it consists entirely of crossing, selection or other natural phenomena.

(8) The provisions of paragraph (4)(b) shall be without prejudice to the patentability of inventions which concern a microbiological or other technical process or a product obtained by means of such process.

(9) Microbiological process means any process involving or performed upon or resulting in microbiological material.

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