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Act No. 206/2000 Coll. of June 21, 2000, on the Protection of Biotechnological Inventions and on the Amendment to Act No. 132/1989 Coll., on the Protection of Rights to New Plant and Animal Varieties, as amended by Act No. 93/1996 Coll., Czech Republic

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Year of Version 2000 Dates Entry into force: October 1, 2000 Adopted: June 21, 2000 Type of Text Main IP Laws Subject Matter Patents (Inventions), Plant Variety Protection Notes This Act on the Protection of Biotechnological Inventions and on the Amendment on the Protection of Rights to New Plant and Animal Varieties concerns the patentability of inventions involving biological materials, plants or animals, microbiological or other technical processes, and products obtained by such processes. Notably, patentability is excluded for inventions contrary to public policy or principles of morality, discovery of elements of the human body (such as the sequence or partial sequence of a gene), and plant and animal varieties or essential biological processes for plant or animal production.

Available Texts Main text(s) Main text(s) Czech Zákona č. 206/2000 Sb. ze dne 21. června 2000, o ochraně biotechnologických vynálezů ao změně zákona č. 132/1989 Sb., o ochraně práv k novým rostlin a živočišných druhů, ve znění zákona č. 93/1996 Sb . PDF HTML English Act No. 206/2000 Coll. of June 21, 2000, on the Protection of Biotechnological Inventions and on the Amendment to Act No. 132/1989 Coll., on the Protection of Rights to New Plant and Animal Varieties, as amended by Act No. 93/1996 Coll. PDF HTML
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Act No. 132/1989 Coll. of November 15, 1989, on the legal Protection of New Varieties of Plants and Breeds of Animal (CZ015)
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Act No. 408/2000 Coll. of October 25, 2000, on the Protection of Plant Variety Rights and on Amendments to Act No. 92/1996 Coll., on Plant Varieties, Seed and Planting Material of Cultivated Plants, as amended (Act on the Protection of Plant Variety Rights) (as amended by Act No. 183/2017 Coll.) (CZ093)
Act No. 408/2000 Coll. of October 25, 2000, on the Protection of Plant Variety Rights and the Amendment to Act No. 92/1996 Coll., on Plant Varieties, Seed and Planting Material of Cultivated Plants, as amended (Act on the Protection of Plant Variety Rights) (CZ031)
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Act No. 408/2000 Coll. of October 25, 2000, on the Protection of Plant Variety Rights and on Amendments to Act No. 92/1996 Coll., on Plant Varieties, Seed and Planting Material of Cultivated Plants, as amended (Act on the Protection of Plant Variety Rights) (as amended by Act No. 183/2017 Coll.) (CZ093)

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