Guidelines for Examination
PART C
 CHAPTER IV PATENTABILITY
3. Exceptions to patentability
3.4 Plant and animal varieties, processes for the production of plants or animals 		 

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PART C
CHAPTER IV PATENTABILITYCHAPTER IV PATENTABILITY
3. Exceptions to patentability3. Exceptions to patentability
  3.3b Biotechnological inventions3.3b Biotechnological inventions     3.5 Microbiological processes3.5 Microbiological processes  
 

3.4

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

 

Also excluded from patentability are "plant or animal varieties or essentially biological processes for the production of plants or animals".

 

Art. 53(b)



3.4.1 Plant varieties

3.4.2 Processes for the production of plants or animals

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