Title: | Article 6 (b) and (c) of the Bangui Agreement of 02/03/1977, as revised on 24/02/1999 |
Field of IP: | Patents |
Type of flexibility: | Patentability of substances existing in nature |
Summary table: |
Article 6
Non-Patentable Subject Matter
Patents shall not be granted for the following:
(b) discoveries, scientific theories and mathematical methods;
(c) inventions having as their subject matter plant varieties, animal species and essentially biological processes for the breeding of plants or animals other than microbiological processes and the products of such processes.