Title: | Section 7 (2)(a) and (b) of the Patents Act No. 1 of 20/01/1987 |
Field of IP: | Patents |
Type of flexibility: | Patentability of substances existing in nature |
Summary table: |
Definition 7 : (2) The following shall not be regarded as inventions within the meaning of subsection (1):
(a) discoveries, and scientific and mathematical theories;
(b) plant or animal varieties or essentially biological processes for the production of plants or animals, other than microbiological and the products of such processes;