Title: | Section 2 (2) (iv), (v) and (vi) of the Patents Act No. 23 of 29/12/2003 |
Field of IP: | Patents |
Type of flexibility: | Exclusion from patentability of plants |
Summary table: |
2. (2) The following, even if they are inventions within the meaning of subsection (1), shall be excluded from patent protection:
(iv) plants and animals other than micro-organisms;
(v) essentially biological processes for the production of plants or animals other than non-biological and microbiological processes;
(vi) plant varieties;