Title: | Article 8 (a) and (c) of the Industrial Property Act of 1999 |
Field of IP: | Patents |
Type of flexibility: | Patentability of substances existing in nature |
Summary table: |
Matters excluded from patent protection
8. The following, even if they are inventions in terms of section 1, shall be excluded from patent protection -
(a) discoveries, scientific theories and mathematical methods;
(c) plant or animal varieties or essentially biological processes for the production of plants or animals, other than microbiological processes and the products of such processes.