Title: | Article 5 (5) (a), (b) and (c) of the Law No. 9947 of 07/ 07/2008 "On Industrial Property" |
Field of IP: | Patents |
Type of flexibility: | Exclusion from patentability of plants |
Summary table: |
Article 5 - patentable inventions
5. Biotechnological inventions shall also be patentable if they concern:
a) biological material which is isolated from its natural environment or produced by means of a technical process even if it previously occurred in nature;
b) plants or animals if the technical feasibility of the invention is not confined to a particular plant or animal variety;
c) microbiological or other technical process, or a product obtained by means of such a process other than a plant or animal variety;