[SCHEDULE A2 Biotechnological Inventions]
Patents Act 1977 (1977 c 37) | Legislation

[SCHEDULE A2 Biotechnological Inventions]

[Section 76A]

[1

An invention shall not be considered unpatentable solely on the ground that it concerns—

(a)     a product consisting of or containing biological material; or

(b)     a process by which biological material is produced, processed or used.

2

Biological material which is isolated from its natural environment or produced by means of a technical process may be the subject of an invention even if it previously occurred in nature.

3

The following are not patentable inventions—

(a)     the human body, at the various stages of its formation and development, and the simple discovery of one of its elements, including the sequence or partial sequence of a gene;

(b)     processes for cloning human beings;

(c)     processes for modifying the germ line genetic identity of human beings;

(d)     uses of human embryos for industrial or commercial purposes;

(e)     processes

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