Aplicación legislativa de las flexibilidades - Brasil

Título:	Sections 10 (I) and (IX) and 18 II of the Industrial Property Law No. 9.279 of 14/05/1996 (as last amended by Law No.10.196, of 14/02/2001) and Article 31 of the Provisional measure No. 2.186-16
Campo de P.I.:	Patentes
Tipo de flexibilidad:	Patentabilidad de sustancias que existen en la naturaleza
Cuadro resumido:

Disposiciones legislativas

10. The following are not considered to be inventions or utility models:

I. discoveries, scientific theories, and mathematical methods;

IX. all or part of natural living beings and biological materials found in nature, even if isolated therefrom, including the genome or germoplasm of any natural living being, and the natural biological processes.

18. The following are not patentable:

II. substances, materials, mixtures, elements or products of any kind, as well as the

modification of their physical- chemical properties and the respective processes for obtainment or modification, when resulting from the transformation of the atomic nucleus;

Article 31 of the Provisional measure No. 2.186-16

The grant of industrial property rights by the component bodies for a process or product obtained using samples of components of the genetic heritage is contingent on the observance of this Provisional Measure, the applicant being obliged to specify the origin of the genetic material and the associated traditional knowledge, as the case may be.