Title: | Section 3 (a) of the Industrial Property Law No. 6 of 04/09/1997 |
Field of IP: | Patents |
Type of flexibility: | Patentability of substances existing in nature |
Summary table: |
Definition of patents arid of invention and matter excluded from patents protection.
3.. For the purposes of this Act -
a "patent" means the title 'granted to protect an invention;
"invention" means an idea of an inventor which permits in practice the solution to a specific problem in the field of technology and. may be or may relate to a product or a process but the following, even if they are inventions, shall be excluded from patent protection -
(a) discoveries, scientific theories and mathematical methods: