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PART C
CHAPTER IV PATENTABILITY
3. Exceptions to patentability
 

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PART C
CHAPTER IV PATENTABILITYCHAPTER IV PATENTABILITY
  2a. Biotechnological inventions2a. Biotechnological inventions     4. Industrial application4. Industrial application  
 

3.

Exceptions to patentability

 


3.1 Matter contrary to ordre public or morality

3.2 Prohibited matter

3.3 Offensive and non-offensive use

3.3a Economic effects

3.3b Biotechnological inventions

3.4 Plant and animal varieties, processes for the production of plants or animals

3.5 Microbiological processes