Patentability of Inventions
3 (2) The following shall not be regarded as inventions:
(a) discoveries, scientific theories and mathematical methods;
Exclusions from Patentability
4 - Patents shall not be granted in respect of:
(b) plant or animal varieties or essentially biological processes for the production of plants or animals; this provision does not apply to microbiological processes and products thereof.
Section 2 of the Act No. 206/2000 Coll. of 21/06/2000 on the Protection of Biotechnological Inventions
Section 2
Patentable biotechnological inventions
Biotechnological inventions are patentable, if they concern
a) biological material, which is isolated from its natural environment or produced by means of a technical process, even if it previously occurred in nature,
b) plants or animals, if the technical feasibility of the invention is not confined to a particular plant or animal variety, or
c) microbiological or other technical process and a product, other than a plant or animal variety, obtained by this way.