Title: | Section 18 (3) and (4) of the Patents Act No. 83 of 1990 as last amended by Act No. 106 of 2006 |
Field of IP: | Patents |
Type of flexibility: | Exclusion from patentability of plants |
Summary table: |
18 Patentable inventions
(3) For the purposes of an innovation patent, plants and animals, and the biological processes for the generation of plants and animals, are not patentable inventions.
(4) Subsection (3) does not apply if the invention is a microbiological process or a product of such a process.