...protection! 1) discoveries, scientific theories and mathematical methods) 11) plant or animal varieties or essentially biological processes for the production of plants or animals, other than microbiological processes and the products of such processes! Section 113 Petentable Inventions An...

...methods, living things larger than microorganisms, and biological breeding methods. Members may exclude "diagnostic, therapeutic and surgical methods for the treatment of humans or animals,"** as well as "plants and animals other than micro-organisms, and essentially biological processes for...

...prohibits commercial exploitation in its territory of the subject matter of the patent. 3. A Party may also exclude from patentability: (a) diagnostic,...plants and animals other than microorganisms; and (c) essentially biological processes for the production of plants or animals, other than non-biological...

...prohibits commercial exploitation in its territory of the subject matter of the patent. 3. A Party may also exclude from patentability: (a) diagnostic,...plants and animals other than microorganisms; and (c) essentially biological processes for the production of plants or animals, other than non-biological...

...somewhat ambiguous. Clearly, three starts off, "members may also exclude from patentability"; and then, B, "plants and animals other than microorganisms,...biological processes for the production of plants and animals other than nonbiological and macrobiological processes." Then it says, however, "members...

...health or to avoid serious prejudice to the environment. Diagnostic, therapeutic and surgical methods; plants and animals other than micro-organisms; and...processes for the production of plants or animals may also be excluded from patentability.81 The latter exception follows practice in many European countries,...

...be the World Trade Organization [WTO]) will be allowed to exclude from patentability the following: "...plants and animals other than microorganisms,...biological processes for the production of plants and animals other than non-biological and microbiological organisms. . . " This language excludes from...

...diagnostic, therapeutic and surgical methods, and for plants and (other than microorganisms) animals and essentially biological processes for the production of plants or animals (other than microbiological processes). Plant varieties, however, must be protectable either by patents or by a...

...produced. The only products or processes which countries are permitted to exclude from patentability are: Q Diagnostic, therapeutic and surgical methods for the treatment of humans or animals; Q Plants and animals other than micro-organisms; Q Essentially biological processes for the production...

...developing countries, which found expression in the Biodiversity Convention. Members are permitted to exclude from patentability: (a) diagnostic, therapeutic...microorganisms, and essentially biological processes for the protection of plants and animals other than non-biological and microbiological processes...40 With...