Title: | Article 30 (1) (b) and (2) (b)of the Industrial Property Code, Decree No. 04 of 12/04/2006 |
Field of IP: | Patents |
Type of flexibility: | Patentability of substances existing in nature |
Summary table: |
Article 30
Exceptions to patentability
1. The following shall not be considered inventions for the purposes of this diploma:
b) Discoveries aimed at making known or revealing something which already exists naturally, notwithstanding that it was heretofore unknown to man;
2. The following are excluded from patent protection:
b) All or part of living beings, although microbiological processes and products obtained from such processes are patentable.