Guidelines for Examination
PART C
CHAPTER IV PATENTABILITY
2a. Biotechnological inventions
2a.1 General remarks and definitions
 

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PART C
CHAPTER IV PATENTABILITYCHAPTER IV PATENTABILITY
2a. Biotechnological inventions2a. Biotechnological inventions
       2a.2 Patentable biotechnological inventions2a.2 Patentable biotechnological inventions  
 

2a.1

General remarks and definitions

 

"Biotechnological inventions" are inventions which concern a product consisting of or containing biological material or a process by means of which biological material is produced, processed or used. "Biological material" means any material containing genetic information and capable of reproducing itself or being reproduced in a biological system.

 

Rule 23b(2), (3)