Title: | Section 11(a) and (e) of the Patents Act No. 18 of 26/07/2001 |
Field of IP: | Patents |
Type of flexibility: | Patentability of substances existing in nature |
Summary table: |
11 (1) Whether or not they constitute an invention within the meaning of this Act, the following are not patentable under this Act, namely:
(a) discoveries, scientific theories and mathematical methods;
(e) plant varieties, animal varieties and essentially biological processes for the production of plants other than microbiological processes and the products of those processes;